William Shakespeare Quotes
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He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
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Make use of time, let not advantage slip.
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Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.
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Sir, the year growing ancient, Not yet on summer's death nor on the birth Of trembling winter, the fairest flowers o' th' season Are our carnations and streaked gillyvors, Which some call nature's bastards.
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Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
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Mechanic slaves With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall Uplift us to the view.
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So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
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This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable.
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All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told.
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I am a feather for each wind that blows
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The best is yet to come.
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Not an angel of the air, Bird melodious or bird fair, Be absent hence!
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A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished: For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
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Fill all thy bones with aches.
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A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.
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In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime.
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I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, My figured goblets for a dish of wood, My scepter for a palmer's walking staff My subjects for a pair of carved saints and my large kingdom for a little grave.
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Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye.
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In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
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As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.
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You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live
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He makes a July's day short as December.
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In nature's infinite book of secrecy A little I can read.
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Poise the cause in justice's equal scales, Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.