William Shakespeare Quotes
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I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.
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If we are mark'd to die, we are enow To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour. God's will! I pray thee; wish not one man more.
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To be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour.
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It is the very error of the moon; She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, And makes men mad.
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And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mischiefs.
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And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.
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I love him for his sake; And yet I know him a notorious liar, Think him a great way fool, solely a coward; Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him That they take place when virtue's steely bones Looks bleak i' th' cold wind; withal, full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.
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Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.
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Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well, Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinable gum. Set you down this, And say besides that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by th' throat the circumcised dog And smote him thus.
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There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.
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Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here I clip The anvil of my sword, and do contest As hotly and as nobly with thy love As ever in ambitious strength I did Contend against thy valour. Know thou first, I loved the maid I married; never man Sigh'd truer breath; but that I see thee here, Thou noble thing! more dances my rapt heart Than when I first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold.
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Men in rage strike those that wish them best.
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For trust not him that hath once broken faith
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The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart-see, they bark at me.
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I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.
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Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce!
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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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Knavery's plain face is never seen till used.
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The error of our eye directs our mind. What error leads must err.
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All difficulties are easy when they are known.
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So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem.
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God's will! my liege, would you and I alone, Without more help, could fight this royal battle!
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You, and your lady, Take from my heart all thankfulness!
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Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.