William Shakespeare Quotes
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Nice customs curtsy to great kings.
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I'll fight, till from my bones my flesh be hacked.
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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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Time's glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.
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Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.
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Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe
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And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
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So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
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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 would with such perfection govern, sir, T'excel the golden age.
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Plutus himself, That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine, Hath not in nature's mystery more science Than I have in this ring.
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A hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us; His dew falls everywhere.
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So quick bright things come to confusion.
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O England! Model to thy inward greatness, like little body with a might heart.
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This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant-a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is crush'd into folly, his folly sauced with discretion.
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Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.
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There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is.
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And thence from Athens turn away our eyes To seek new friends and stranger companies.
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The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
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Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.
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I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.
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Remuneration! O! That's the Latin word for three farthings
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Give obedience where 'tis truly owed.
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Beware Of entrance to a quarrel.