William Shakespeare Quotes
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Why, headstrong liberty is lashed with woe. There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky.
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Thou ever young, fresh, lov'd, and delicate wooer, whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow.
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
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one pain is cured by another. catch some new infection in your eye and the poison of the old one would die.
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Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars That make ambition virtue.
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Forget, forgive; conclude, and be agreed.
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Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
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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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The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly.
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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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But most it is presumption in us when the help of heaven we count the act of men.
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Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith; But hollow men, like horses hot at hand, Make gallant show and promise of their mettle; But when they should endure the bloody spur, They fall their crests, and like deceitful jades Sink in the trial.
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I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library.
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But virtue never will be mov'd, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven.
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I have a bone to pick with Fate
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My cousin's a fool, and thou art another.
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I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
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Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor.
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Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?" Malvolio: "Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art." Feste: "But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no better in you wits than a fool.
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Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden.
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I love him for his sake; And yet I know him a notorious liar, Think him a great way fool, solely a coward; Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him That they take place when virtue's steely bones Looks bleak i' th' cold wind; withal, full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.
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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.
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The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart-see, they bark at me.
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Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?