William Shakespeare Quotes
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Leave us to our free election.
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Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks
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Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.
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Ten kisses short as one, one long as twenty.
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Why, friends, you go to do you know not what: Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves? Alas, you know not: I must tell you then: You have forgot the will I told you of. . . . . Here is the will, and under Caesar's seal. To every Roman citizen he gives, To every several man, seventy-five drachmas. . . . . Moreover, he hath left you all his walks, His private arbours and new-planted orchards, On this side Tiber; he hath left them you, And to your heirs for ever, common pleasures, To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves. Here was a Caesar! when comes such another?
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It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance
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Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that And manage it against despairing thoughts.
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If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me.
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Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles.
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Will you walk out of the air, my lord? HAMLET Into my grave.
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I had rather eleven died nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.
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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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Most friendship is faining, most loving mere folly: Then, heigh-ho, the holly. This life is most jolly.
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You abilities are too infant-like for doing much alone.
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Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.
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There is no more mercy in him than there is milk in a male tiger.
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I must to the barber's, monsieur, for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face.
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Take you me for a sponge?
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Look, what a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on his back.
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Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.
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What freezings I have felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!
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Now all the youth of England are on fire, And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies; Now thrive the armorers, and honor's thought Reigns solely in the breast of every man.
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I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.
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Have I caught thee, my heavenly jewel? Why, now let me die, for I have lived long enough.