William Shakespeare Quotes
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Juliet is the east and i am the sun.
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One half of me is yours, the other half is yours, Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours.
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ROMEO to BALTHASAR But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry In what I further shall intend to do, By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs: The time and my intents are savage-wild, More fierce and more inexorable far Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.
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Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend.
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Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy, and blind oblivion swallowed cities up, and mighty states characterless are grated to dusty nothing, yet let memory, from false to false, among false maids in love, upbraid my falsehood!
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Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
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Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind.
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Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men; As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves, are 'clept All by the name of dogs: the valued file Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle, The housekeeper, the hunter, every one According to the gift which bounteous nature Hath in him closed.
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I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise.
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When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
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Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves.
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He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
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Who can control his fate?
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He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.
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Some there be that shadows kiss; Such have but a shadow's bliss.
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I am sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips, let no dog bark.
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Cease thy counsel, for thy words fall into my ears as priceless as water into a seive.
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Nothing can seem foul to those who win.
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Ten kisses short as one, one long as twenty.
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There's some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favourable.
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It were a grief so brief to part with thee. Farewell.
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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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Thou weedy elf-skinned canker-blossom!
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I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.