William Shakespeare Quotes
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Fight to the last gasp.
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You are made Rather to wonder at the things you hear Than to work any.
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I heard a bustling rumor like a fray, And the wind blows it from the Capitol.
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I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl. The secret mischiefs that I set abroach I lay unto the grievous charge of others.
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We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we'll not fail.
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Officers, what offence have these men done? DOGBERRY Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.
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What light through yonder window breaks?
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So now I have confessed that he is thine, And I my self am mortgaged to thy will, My self I'll forfeit, so that other mine, Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still.
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Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.
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Love's stories written in love's richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.
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Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor
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What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.” “My hands are of your colour; but I shame to wear a heart so white. A little water clears us of this deed: How easy it is then! Your constancy hath left you unattended.
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O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head As is a winged messenger of heaven
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I'll never Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand As is a man were author of himself And knew no other kin.
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You are not wood, you are not stones, but men; And being men, hearing the will of Caesar, It will inflame you, it will make you mad.
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Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment.
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Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.
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Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged crimes Unwhipped of justice.
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Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.
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Then was I as a tree whose boughs did bend with fruit; but in one night, a storm or robbery, call it what you will, shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves, and left me bare to weather.
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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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Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.
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Let husbands know Their wives have sense like them. They see, and smell, And have their palates both for sweet and sour, As husbands have.
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Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.