William Shakespeare Quotes
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Now stand you on the top of happy hours, And many maiden gardens yet unset, With virtuous wish would bear you living flowers, Much liker than your painted counterfeit: So should the lines of life that life repair Which this, Time's pencil, or my pupil pen Neither in inward worth nor outward fair Can make you live your self in eyes of men.
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You, and your lady, Take from my heart all thankfulness!
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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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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Love's stories written in love's richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.
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No villainous bounty yet hath passed my heart; Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given.
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Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn but I shall have my pocket picked?
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Do all men kill the things they do not love ............ The quality of mercy is not strain'd It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
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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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I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.
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April ... hath put a spirit of youth in everything.
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Men in rage strike those that wish them best.
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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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Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!
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And be these juggling friends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope.
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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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All is well ended if this suit be won. That you express content; which we will pay, With strife to please you, day exceeding day.
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Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
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The devil shall have his bargain; for he was never yet a breaker of proverbs--he will give the devil his due.
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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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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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Speak low, if you speak love.
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O you beast! I'll so maul you and your toasting-iron, That you shall think the devil is come from hell.