William Shakespeare Quotes
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They have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor
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Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.
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For trust not him that hath once broken faith
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Look, how this ring encompasseth thy finger, Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart; Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.
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Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
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Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands, But more when envy breeds unkind division: There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.
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Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so; And, being done, thus Wall away doth go.
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I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service.
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Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
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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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A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.
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Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so, To make my end too sudden.
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A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.
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Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother.
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A fusty nut with no kernel.
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They love least that let men know their loves.
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Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber.
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All furnished, all in arms; All plum'd like estridges that with the wind Bated like eagles having lately bathed; Glittering in golden coats like images; As full of spirit as the month of May And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer; Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.
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Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated: Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
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Summer's lease hath all too short a date.
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I have thrust myself into this maze, Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.
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Cursed be he that moves my bones.
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O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart."-Helena
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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.