William Shakespeare Quotes
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Nay, we must think men are not gods, Nor of them look for such observancy As fits the bridal.
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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
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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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Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare, To digg the dust encloased heare! Blest be the man that spares thes stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.
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'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
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Men in rage strike those that wish them best.
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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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To you your father should be as a god; One that composed your beauties, yea, and one To whom you are but as a form in wax, By him imprinted, and within his power To leave the figure or disfigure it.
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And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
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Be merry; you have cause, so have we all, of joy; for our escape is much beyond our loss . . . . then wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort.
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Avaunt, you cullions!
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The sands are number'd that make up my life; Here must I stay, and here my life must end.
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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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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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Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
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May never glorious sun reflex his beams Upon the country where you make abode! But darkness and the gloomy shade of death Environ you till mischief and despair Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves.
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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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Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions.
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But I remember now I am in this earthly world, where to do harm Is often laudable, to do good sometime Accounted dangerous folly.
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Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
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An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.
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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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A knot you are of damned bloodsuckers.
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I am not in the giving vein today.