William Shakespeare Quotes
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There is little choice in a barrel of rotten apples.
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Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
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Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.
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Never play with the feelings of others, because you may win the game but the risk is that you will surely lose the person for life time
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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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If people knew how much I hated them, they'd love me for holding it in.
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Jesters do oft prove prophets.
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They may seize On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand And steal immortal blessing from her lips, Who, even in pure and vestal modesty, Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin.
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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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Conscience is a blushing, shamefaced spirit than mutinies in a man's bosom; it fills one full of obstacles.
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Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle; I am no traitor's uncle, and that word "grace" In an ungracious mouth is but profane.
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To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess
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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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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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Be to yourself as you would to your friend.
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Where is Polonius? HAMLET In heaven. Send hither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i' th' other place yourself. But if indeed you find him not within this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby.
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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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Every fair from fair sometime declines
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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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Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.— Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!
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Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.
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By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.
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What freezings I have felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!
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If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms.