William Shakespeare Quotes
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I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting
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Thou hast the most unsavoury similes.
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I heard a bustling rumor like a fray, And the wind blows it from the Capitol.
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Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament: They are but beggars that can count their worth; But my true love is grown to such excess, I cannot sum up half my sum of wealth.
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When faced with a sea of troubles, take action, and in so doing end it.
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I am sure care's an enemy to life.
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Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons' difference, as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, Which, when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile.
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A turn or two I'll walk To still my beating mind.
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I do love nothing in the world so well as you – is not that strange?
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I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
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I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.
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Lords, I protest my soul is full of woe That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow. Come, mourn with me for what I do lament, And put sullen black incontinent. I'll make a voyage to the Holy Land To wash this blood off from my guilty hand. March sadly after. Grace my mournings here In weeping after this untimely bier.
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The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.
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In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; . . . . Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.
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Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.
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To offend and judge are distinct offices, And of opposed natures.
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Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth But that our soft conditions and our hearts Should well agree with our external parts?
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If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts against their father, fool me not so much to bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger, and let not women's weapons, water drops, stain my man's cheeks.
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On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride.
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The good I stand on is my truth and honesty.
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How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
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But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.
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Look, how this ring encompasseth thy finger, Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart; Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.
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There is a law in each well-ordered nation To curb those raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory.