William Shakespeare Quotes
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Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.
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Leave us to our free election.
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There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.
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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
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A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.
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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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O you beast! I'll so maul you and your toasting-iron, That you shall think the devil is come from hell.
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I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.
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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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Sir, he's a good dog, and a fair dog.
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Out, damned spot! Out, I say!
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Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my attendance to.
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All things are ready, if our mind be so.
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Lord, what fools these mortals be!
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But I remember now I am in this earthly world, where to do harm Is often laudable, to do good sometime Accounted dangerous folly.
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The devil shall have his bargain; for he was never yet a breaker of proverbs--he will give the devil his due.
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When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will
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I doubt not then but innocence shall makeFalse accusation blush, and tyrannyTremble at patience.
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Heaven - the treasury of everlasting life.
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Heaven give you many, many merry days.
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In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; . . . . Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.
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All is well ended if this suit be won. That you express content; which we will pay, With strife to please you, day exceeding day.
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This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star.
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That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimms, and makes it indistinct As water is in water