William Shakespeare Quotes
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What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours.
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When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
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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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I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
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Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even then when we sit idly in the sun.
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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue
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Frailty, thy name is woman!
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Under the colour of commending him I have access my own love to prefer; But Silvia is too fair, too true, too holy, To be corrupted with my worthless gifts.
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Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must.
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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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He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
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Nothing can seem foul to those who win.
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Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.
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I am a foe to tyrants, and my country's friend.
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Thou art sad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife!
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Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
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The smallest worm will turn being trodden on, And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.
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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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Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice, He offers in another's enterprise; But more in Troilus thousand-fold I see Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be, Yet hold I off.
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Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.
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Good with out evil is like light with out darkness which in turn is like righteousness whith out hope.
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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought.
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Love is your master, for he masters you; And he that is so yoked by a fool Methinks should not be chronicled for wise.
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Women may fall when there's no strength in men.