William Shakespeare Quotes
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But Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou love me?" Catherine: "I cannot tell." Henry: "Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask them.
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Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority-a dog's obeyed in office.
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Most friendship is faining, most loving mere folly: Then, heigh-ho, the holly. This life is most jolly.
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It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance
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He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.
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Experience teacheth that resolution is a sole help in need.
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All thy vexations Were but my trials of thy love, and thou Hast strangely stood the test; here, afore heaven, I ratify this my rich gift.
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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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Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.
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This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh!
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'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
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I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.
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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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I have heard of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on others, to taste their valor.
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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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A peevish self-willed harlotry it is. *She’s a stubborn little brat.*
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Awake, awake, English nobility! Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot.
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O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)
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Lend less than you owe.
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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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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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Then with the losers let it sympathize, For nothing can seem foul to those that win.
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There's nothing in this world can make me joy: Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man; And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste That it yields nought but shame and bitterness.
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Heaven - the treasury of everlasting life.