William Shakespeare Quotes
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If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
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This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.
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We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
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When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
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Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.
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For I am fresh of spirit, and resolved To meet all perils very constantly.
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An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.
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Friendship's full of dregs.
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I do repent; but heaven hath pleas'd it so To punish me with this, and this with me, That I must be their scourge and minister. I will bestow him, and will answer well The death I gave him. So again good night. I must be cruel only to be kind. Thus bad begins and worse remains behind.
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Eternity was in our lips and eyes.
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She's good, being gone.
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Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in.
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I hope to see London once ere I die.
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You are strangely troublesome.
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I say, without characters, fame lives long.
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
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No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel: My griefs cry louder than advertisement.
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The hideous god of war.
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I am not in the giving vein today.
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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.
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Take her away; for she hath lived too long, To fill the world with vicious qualities.
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You shall more command with years than with your weapons.
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That island of England breeds very valiant creatures; their mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.
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The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow We are such stuff as dreams are made of.