William Shakespeare Quotes
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I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged.
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A very scurvy fellow.
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Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.
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And when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And asleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me must be heard of, say, I taught thee.
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Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament: They are but beggars that can count their worth; But my true love is grown to such excess, I cannot sum up half my sum of wealth.
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If I be waspish, best beware my sting.
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Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.
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What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts.
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Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just.
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How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!
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Why should honor outlive honestly? Orthello
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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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This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,--This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
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The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?
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It hurts not the tongue to give fair words.
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And I will make it felony to drink small beer.
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What's the news? None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest, Then is doomsday near.
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False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
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Yea from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records.
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It is thyself, mine own self's better part; Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart; My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope's aim, My sole earth's heaven, and my heaven's claim.
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This we prescribe, though no physician; Deep malice makes too deep incision; Forget, forgive; conclude and be agreed; Our doctors say this is no month to bleed.
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Take all the swift advantage of the hours.
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
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Thus play I in one person many people, And none contented: sometimes am I king; Then treasons make me wish myself a beggar, And so I am: then crushing penury Persuades me I was better when a king; Then am I king'd again: and by and by Think that I am unking'd by Bolingbroke, And straight am nothing: but whate'er I be, Nor I nor any man that but man is With nothing shall be pleased, till he be eased With being nothing.