William Shakespeare Quotes
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Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just.
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And when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And asleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me must be heard of, say, I taught thee.
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Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.
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All things are ready, if our mind be so.
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This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy of Caesar;He only, in a general honest thoughtAnd common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elementsSo mixd in him that Nature might stand upAnd say to all the world, This was a man!
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Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.
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Best men oft are moulded out of faults.
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Speak low, if you speak love.
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Gold were as good as twenty orators.
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But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute.
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If thou dost love, proclaim it faithfully.
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Vice repeated is like the wandering wind, blows dust in others' eyes to spread itself.
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I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library.
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I hope to see London once ere I die.
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When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will
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Lend less than you owe.
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Before, I loved thee as a brother, John, But now, I do respect thee as my soul.
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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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Thou knowest, winter tames man, woman, and beast.
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We may outrun By violent swiftness And lose by over-running.
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A sad tale's best for winter. I have one of sprites and goblins.
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Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary And pitch our evils there?
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All difficulties are easy when they are known.
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It is thyself, mine own self's better part; Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart; My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope's aim, My sole earth's heaven, and my heaven's claim.