William Shakespeare Quotes
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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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What freezings I have felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!
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Hot blood begets hot thoughts, And hot thoughts beget Hot deeds, And hot deeds is love.
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My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date; But when in thee time's furrows I behold, Then look I death my days should expiate.
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In love the heavens themselves do guide the state; Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate.
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The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen As is the razor's edge invisible.
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How low am I, thou painted maypole?
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I am one, my liege, Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have so incensed that I am reckless what I do to spite the world.
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Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.
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All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh!
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The good I stand on is my truth and honesty.
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I can counterfeit the deep tragedian; Speak and look back, and pry on every side, Tremble and start, at wagging of a straw, Intending deep suspicion.
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You are made Rather to wonder at the things you hear Than to work any.
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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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As there comes light from heaven and words from breath, As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue
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When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
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Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition
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There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.
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When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
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Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
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She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.
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I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire, But qualify the fire's extreme rage, Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason.
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To weep is to make less the depth of grief.
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There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is.