William Shakespeare Quotes
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The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.
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I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than thou learn a prayer without book.
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My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul.
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Tired with all these for restful death I cry, As to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimmed in jollity, And purest faith unhappily forsworn.
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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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Vile worm, thou wast o'erlook'd even in thy birth.
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Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.
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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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Look, the world's comforter, with weary gait, His day's hot task hath ended in the west: The owl, night's herald, shrieks-'tis very late; The sheep are gone to fold, birds to their nest; And coal-black clouds, that shadow heaven's light, Do summon us to part, and bid good night.
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Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber.
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All things are ready, if our mind be so.
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Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues.
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I myself am best When least in company.
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April ... hath put a spirit of youth in everything.
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Sir, he's a good dog, and a fair dog.
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Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
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Welcome ever smiles, and farewell goes out sighing.
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"Fair, kind, and true" is all my argument, "Fair, kind, and true" varying to other words; And in this change is my invention spent, Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.
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Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
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Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art, As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel; For well thou know'st to my dear doting heart Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel.
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Take her away; for she hath lived too long, To fill the world with vicious qualities.
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Can it be chat modesty may more betray Our sense than woman's lightness?
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Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
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The moon shines bright. In such a night as this. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and they did make no noise, in such a night.