William Shakespeare Quotes
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When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
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O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
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It's easy for someone to joke about scars if they've never been cut.
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Farewell, my sister, fare thee well. The elements be kind to thee, and make Thy spirits all of comfort: fare thee well.
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You lack the season of all natures, sleep.
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Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.
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Love is a spirit all compact of fire.
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In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
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Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin's fee.
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Lions make leopards tame.
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As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28).
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And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, "It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags."
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When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.
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Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
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Come not between the dragon and his wrath.
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The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.
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O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
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Thy food is such As hath been belch'd on by infected lungs.
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a young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief
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Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life is done.
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We have seen better days.
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Love is . . . a madness most discreet
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My dear, dear Lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation; that away Men are but gilded loan or painted clay... Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done.
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Poise the cause in justice's equal scales, Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.