William Shakespeare Quotes
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Out, damned spot! Out, I say!
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Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.
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You'd be so lean, that blast of January Would blow you through and through. Now, my fair'st friend, I would I had some flowers o' the spring that might Become your time of day.
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But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind.
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These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume
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To go to bed after midnight is to go to bed betimes
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Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.
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A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame, And never going aright, being a watch, But being watched that it may still go right!
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My endeavors Have ever come too short of my desires. Yet filed with my abilities.
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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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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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He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.
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He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
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for my grief's so great That no supporter but the huge firm earth Can hold it up: here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. (Constance, from King John, Act III, scene 1)
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I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.
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Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
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Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.
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What a deformed thief this fashion is.
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I was too young that time to value her, But now I know her. If she be a traitor, Why, so am I. We still have slept together, Rose at an instant, learned, played, eat together, And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans, Still we went coupled and inseparable.
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Bear with my weakness. My old brain is troubled. Be not disturbed with my infirmity.
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There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.
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There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.
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Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .
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Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed King.