William Shakespeare Quotes
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There's some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favourable.
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A fusty nut with no kernel.
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I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it; knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence.
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where civil blood makes civil hands unclean
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Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.
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A sympathy in choice.
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Do all men kill the things they do not love ............ The quality of mercy is not strain'd It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
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Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.
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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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What the great ones do, the less will prattle of
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Now the time is come, That France must veil her lofty-plumed crest, And let her head fall into England's lap.
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Thou weedy elf-skinned canker-blossom!
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You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face.
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Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest That best becomes the table.
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What, can the devil speak true?
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Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment.
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O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
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Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.
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But I am constant as the Northern Star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament.
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Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged crimes Unwhipped of justice.
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Oh, how this spring of love resembleth, The uncertain glory of an April day, Which now shows all beauty of the Sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away
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So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
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Temptation: the fiend at my elbow.
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Good God, the souls of all my tribe defend From jealousy!