William Shakespeare Quotes
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Beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.
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Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them.
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I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it; knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence.
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He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.
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I do I know not what, and fear to find Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind. Fate, show thy force. Ourselves we do not owe. What is decreed must be; and be this so.
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I would with such perfection govern, sir, T'excel the golden age.
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O England! Model to thy inward greatness, like little body with a might heart.
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O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul that, struggling to be free, art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay! Bow, stubborn knees! and, heart with strings of steel, be soft as sinews of the new-born babe!
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So, you are very welcome to our house. It must appear in other ways than words, Therefore, I scant this breathing courtesy.
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Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
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My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the feast.
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I can counterfeit the deep tragedian; Speak and look back, and pry on every side, Tremble and start, at wagging of a straw, Intending deep suspicion.
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Thanks to men Of noble minds, is honorable meed.
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Now the time is come, That France must veil her lofty-plumed crest, And let her head fall into England's lap.
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I do love nothing in the world so well as you – is not that strange?
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That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimms, and makes it indistinct As water is in water
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Love laughs at locksmiths.
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Drink down all unkindness.
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Come not within the measure of my wrath.
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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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O you beast! I'll so maul you and your toasting-iron, That you shall think the devil is come from hell.
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So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
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Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even then when we sit idly in the sun.
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Experience teacheth that resolution is a sole help in need.