William Shakespeare Quotes
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O heaven! were man, But constant, he were perfect.
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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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Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
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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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GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness, Being a bark to brook no mighty sea, Than in my greatness covet to be hid, And in the vapour of my glory smother'd. But God be thanked. . . .
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On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride.
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If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms.
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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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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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Myself--a prince by fortune of my birth, Near to the king in blood, and near in love Till you did make him misinterpret me-- Have stooped my neck under your injuries And sighed my English breath in foreign clouds, Eating the bitter bread of banishment, Whilst you have fed upon my signories, Disparked my parks and felled my forest woods, From my own windows torn my household coat, Rased out my imprese, leaving me no sign, Save men's opinions and my living blood, To show the world I am a gentleman.
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Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must.
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Be to yourself as you would to your friend.
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I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.
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With this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature.
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Truly thou art damned, like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side.
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Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so; And, being done, thus Wall away doth go.
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What the great ones do, the less will prattle of
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I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise.
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The head is not more native to the heart.
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I see a man's life is a tedious one.
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Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
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Thy best of rest is sleep, And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st Thy death, which is no more.
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Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves.
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You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.