William Shakespeare Quotes
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Headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.
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Misery makes sport to mock itself.
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Were kisses all the joys in bed, One woman would another wed.
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The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart-see, they bark at me.
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There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.
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Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well, Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinable gum. Set you down this, And say besides that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by th' throat the circumcised dog And smote him thus.
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To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods.
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Pray you now, forget and forgive.
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Take her away; for she hath lived too long, To fill the world with vicious qualities.
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To offend and judge are distinct offices, And of opposed natures.
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God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
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God is our fortress, in whose conquering name Let us resolve to scale their flinty bulwarks.
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What must be shall be.
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Anger is like A full hot horse, who being allowed his way, Self-mettle tires him.
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The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.
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Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both.
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O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!
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Small things make base men proud.
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O constancy, be strong upon my side, Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue! I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.
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And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.
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Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
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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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To be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour.
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If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.