William Shakespeare Quotes
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Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth
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Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment.
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Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.
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Time's glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.
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Remuneration! O! That's the Latin word for three farthings
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Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.
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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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Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.
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I hate the murderer, love him murdered.
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We may outrun By violent swiftness And lose by over-running.
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Beware Of entrance to a quarrel.
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Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.
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I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than thou learn a prayer without book.
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And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
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Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.
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Now is the winter of our discontent.
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Downy sleep, death's counterfeit.
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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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That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimms, and makes it indistinct As water is in water
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Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.
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If thou dost love, proclaim it faithfully.
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It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.
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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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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.