William Shakespeare Quotes
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So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied.
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Affection is a coal that must be cooled; else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire.
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There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things.
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He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.
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Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.
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That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)
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Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way.
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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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I know them, yea, And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple; Scambling, out-facing, fashion-mong'ring boys, That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave, and slander, Go antickly, and show outward hideousness, And speak off half a dozen dangerous words, How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst; And this is all.
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A king of infinite space
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The wheel is come full circle.
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Misery makes sport to mock itself.
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It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.
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Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell.
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More can I bear than you dare execute.
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The devil knew what he did when he made men politic; he crossed himself by it.
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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.
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O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From the world-wearied flesh
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I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
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Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion
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Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.
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Fortune reigns in gifts of the world.
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Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will!
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But most it is presumption in us when the help of heaven we count the act of men.