William Shakespeare Quotes
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Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways.
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The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape, In forms imaginary, th' unguided days And rotten times that you shall look upon When I am sleeping with my ancestors.
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I have pursued her, as love hath pursued me
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And all my mother came into mine eyes And gave me up to tears.
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Antonio: Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you? Sebastian: By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of my fate might, perhaps, distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad recompense for your love to lay any of them on you.
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God bless thee; and put meekness in thy breast, Love, charity, obedience, and true duty!
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Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.
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Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.
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Weep I cannot; But my heart bleeds.
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Downy sleep, death's counterfeit.
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What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.
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Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.
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It is a wise father that knows his own child.
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Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.
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Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands, But more when envy breeds unkind division: There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.
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The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.
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The insolence of office.
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Be as just and gracious unto me, As I am confident and kind to thee.
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I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom.
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Falsehood falsehood cures
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RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.
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My heart is ever at your service.
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Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gain'd my freedom.
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I’ll look to like, if looking liking move; But no more deep will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it fly.