William Shakespeare Quotes
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Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsman to grim and comfortless despair.
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Have I caught thee, my heavenly jewel? Why, now let me die, for I have lived long enough.
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Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
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I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
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A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.
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I am sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips, let no dog bark.
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Live loath'd and long, Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites, Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears, You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time flies Cap and knee slaves, vapors, and minute jacks.
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There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered.
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Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court?
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I doubt not then but innocence shall makeFalse accusation blush, and tyrannyTremble at patience.
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All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh!
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IAGO: She that was ever fair and never proud, Had tongue at will and yet was never loud, Never lack'd gold and yet went never gay, Fled from her wish and yet said 'Now I may,' She that being anger'd, her revenge being nigh, Bade her wrong stay and her displeasure fly, She that in wisdom never was so frail To change the cod's head for the salmon's tail; She that could think and ne'er disclose her mind, See suitors following and not look behind, She was a wight, if ever such wight were,-- DESDEMONA: To do what? IAGO: To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.
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It were a grief so brief to part with thee. Farewell.
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Who can control his fate?
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Their lips were four red roses on a stalk.
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Thus die I, thus, thus, thus. Now am I dead, Now am I fled; My soul is in the sky: Tongue, lose thy light; Moon take thy flight. Now die, die, die, die, die.
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Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep.
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Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and there's all the love they bear us.
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I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world
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Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.
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I am not in the giving vein today.
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I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors To study fashions to adorn my body: Since I am crept in favor with myself, I will maintain it with some little cost.
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If people knew how much I hated them, they'd love me for holding it in.
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Can we outrun the heavens?