William Shakespeare Quotes
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Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.
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For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know.
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He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.
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Tired with all these for restful death I cry, As to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimmed in jollity, And purest faith unhappily forsworn.
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In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil.
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Dissembling harlot, thou art false in all!
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I am not in the giving vein today.
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Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so, To make my end too sudden.
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Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear
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If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly.
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How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica: look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins. Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.
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Courage and comfort, all shall yet go well
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As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
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Value dwells not in particular will; It holds his estimate and dignity As well wherein 'tis precious of itself As in the prizer.
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Strong reasons make strong actions.
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An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.
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It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
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Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare, To digg the dust encloased heare! Blest be the man that spares thes stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.
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Do not speak like a death's-head, do not bid me remember mine end.
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Come, Let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell.
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His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.
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Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.
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Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking; I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent.
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But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.