William Shakespeare Quotes
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Not proud you have, but thankful that you have. Proud can I never be of what I hate, but thankful even for hate that is meant love.
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Why, friends, you go to do you know not what: Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves? Alas, you know not: I must tell you then: You have forgot the will I told you of. . . . . Here is the will, and under Caesar's seal. To every Roman citizen he gives, To every several man, seventy-five drachmas. . . . . Moreover, he hath left you all his walks, His private arbours and new-planted orchards, On this side Tiber; he hath left them you, And to your heirs for ever, common pleasures, To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves. Here was a Caesar! when comes such another?
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So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate.
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Presume not that I am the thing I was.
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You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
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And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound.
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Summer's lease hath all too short a date.
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My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date; But when in thee time's furrows I behold, Then look I death my days should expiate.
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Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel? Polonius: By the mass, and ‘tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius: It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet: Or like a whale? Polonius: Very like a whale.
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Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.
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Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly at your service
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A hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us; His dew falls everywhere.
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Avaunt, you cullions!
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The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the round world Should have shook lions into civil streets, And citizens to their dens.
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Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.
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Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love.
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My friends were poor, but honest, so's my love.
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Give obedience where 'tis truly owed.
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The gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion.
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What, can the devil speak true?
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So quick bright things come to confusion.
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Haply a woman's voice may do some good When articles too nicely urged be stood on.
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For such things as you, I can scarce think there's any, ye're so slight.
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The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.