William Shakespeare Quotes
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Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
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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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Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.
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To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end.
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Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.
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The good I stand on is my truth and honesty.
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The devil knew what he did when he made men politic; he crossed himself by it.
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Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.
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Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty's brow.
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The moon shines bright. In such a night as this. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and they did make no noise, in such a night.
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What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood Is there not rain enough in the sweet heaves To wash it white as snow?
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Welcome ever smiles, and farewell goes out sighing.
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I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.
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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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Hadst thou no poison mixed, no sharp-ground knife, No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean, But 'banished' to kill me--'banished'? O friar, the damned use that word in hell; Howling attends it! How hast thou the heart, Being a divine, a ghostly confessor, A sin-absolver, and my friend professed, To mangle me with that word 'banished'?
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I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.
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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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I hope to see London once ere I die.
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There is a history in all men's lives.
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To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.
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There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.
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Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue: His faults lie open to the laws; let them, Not you, correct him.
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Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.
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If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage.