William Shakespeare Quotes
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Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?
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Hardness ever of hardness is mother.
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Weep I cannot; But my heart bleeds.
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Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor.
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Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons' difference, as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, Which, when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile.
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Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.
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Falsehood falsehood cures
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Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them.
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Remembrance of things past.
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Downy sleep, death's counterfeit.
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Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.
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Dissembling harlot, thou art false in all!
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Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.
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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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Pray you now, forget and forgive.
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Lend less than you owe.
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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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Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.
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Leave us to our free election.
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If thou dost love, proclaim it faithfully.
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Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.
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The insolence of office.
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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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It is a wise father that knows his own child.