William Shakespeare Quotes
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A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame, And never going aright, being a watch, But being watched that it may still go right!
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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come.
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My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the feast.
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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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Venus smiles not in a house of tears.
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Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?
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Are you up to your destiny?
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How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica: look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins. Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.
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Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole; stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney.
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Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .
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You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face.
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With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.
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Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
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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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But wherefore could not I pronounce 'Amen'? I had most need of blessing, and 'Amen' Stuck in my throat.
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Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
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I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.
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How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
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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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Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.
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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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Gold were as good as twenty orators.
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My endeavors Have ever come too short of my desires. Yet filed with my abilities.
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Love is a wonderful, terrible thing.