William Shakespeare Quotes
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His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
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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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What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours.
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O, she misused me past the endurance of a block.
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Conscience doth make cowards of us all.
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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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The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's fallen out with her husband.
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This is some fellow, Who having been prais'd for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness and constrains the garb Quite from his nature: he can't flatter, he! An honest mind and plain,--he must speak truth! And they will take it so; if not he's plain. These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness Harbor more craft, and far corrupter ends, Than twenty silly, ducking observants, That stretch their duty nicely.
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Mean and mighty, rotting Together, have one dust.
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For such things as you, I can scarce think there's any, ye're so slight.
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Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks
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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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I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo.
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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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I wonder men dare trust themselves with men.
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I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.
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God bless thee; and put meekness in thy breast, Love, charity, obedience, and true duty!
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The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the round world Should have shook lions into civil streets, And citizens to their dens.
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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
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Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even then when we sit idly in the sun.
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Oh, God! I have an ill-divining soul!
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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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Bear with my weakness. My old brain is troubled. Be not disturbed with my infirmity.
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Jesters do oft prove prophets.