William Shakespeare Quotes
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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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It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.
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For by his face straight shall you know his heart.
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Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.
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I have lov'd her ever since I saw her; and still I see her beautiful
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Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.
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Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day And make me travel forth without my cloak, To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way, Hiding they brav'ry in their rotten smoke?
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His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage. He is indeed a horse.
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Give obedience where 'tis truly owed.
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If ever thou shalt love, In the sweet pangs of it remember me; For such as I am all true lovers are, Unstaid and skittish in all motions else Save in the constant image of the creature That is beloved.
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You cram these words into mine ears against The stomach of my sense.
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I have heard of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on others, to taste their valor.
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GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness, Being a bark to brook no mighty sea, Than in my greatness covet to be hid, And in the vapour of my glory smother'd. But God be thanked. . . .
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Do not for one repulse, forego the purpose That you resolved to effect.
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Gold were as good as twenty orators.
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True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.
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The truest poetry is the most feigning.
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To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life: let it come on.
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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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Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.
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Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
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Take you me for a sponge?
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And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mischiefs.
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Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues.