William Shakespeare Quotes
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You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.
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I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.
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Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front; And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
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Poor wretches that depend On greatness' favor, dream as I have done; Wake, and find nothing.
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With this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature.
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Conscience doth make cowards of us all.
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You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face.
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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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This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh!
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Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this.
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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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It is not night when I do see your face, Therefore I think I am not in the night; Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company, For you in my respect are all the world: Then how can it be said I am alone, When all the world is here to look on me?
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When you depart from me sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave.
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Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.
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Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men; As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves, are 'clept All by the name of dogs: the valued file Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle, The housekeeper, the hunter, every one According to the gift which bounteous nature Hath in him closed.
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A tardiness in nature, Which often leaves the history unspoke, That it intends to do.
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We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
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Who can control his fate?
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Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.
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I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely.
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Tis safter to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.
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I have pursued her, as love hath pursued me
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Thy tongue Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd, Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower, With ravishing division, to her lute.
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Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.