William Shakespeare Quotes
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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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Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws.
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Love's heralds should be thoughts, Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams Driving back shadows over low'ring hills. Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love, And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.
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This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest.
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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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When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.
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Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man.
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Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
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We have seen better days.
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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.
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Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
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O gentle son, Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper, sprinkle cool patience.
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A thousand kisses buys my heart from me; And pay them at thy leisure, one by one.
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Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack! At least we'll die with harness on our back.
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The time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were too long.
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Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.
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And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
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The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.
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Thy friendship makes us fresh.
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Tears water our growth.
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What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.
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To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
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Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears Moist it again, and frame some feeling line That may discover such integrity.
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Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life is done.