William Shakespeare Quotes
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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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If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me.
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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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And thence from Athens turn away our eyes To seek new friends and stranger companies.
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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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And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company.
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Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.
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The time is out of joint.
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It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking.
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So quick bright things come to confusion.
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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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Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet. *Here’s what love is: a smoke made out of lovers' sighs. When the smoke clears, love is a fire burning in your lover’s eyes. If you frustrate love, you get an ocean made out of lovers' tears. What else is love? It’s a wise form of madness. It’s a sweet lozenge that you choke on.*
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Nice customs curtsy to great kings.
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Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions.
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The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
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Go, bid the soldiers shoot.
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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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A hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us; His dew falls everywhere.
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You are made Rather to wonder at the things you hear Than to work any.
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I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom.
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Then with the losers let it sympathize, For nothing can seem foul to those that win.
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A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame, And never going aright, being a watch, But being watched that it may still go right!
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Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.
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So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate.