William Shakespeare Quotes
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O constancy, be strong upon my side, Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue! I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.
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How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!
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When the mind's free, The Body's delicate.
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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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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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Would I were in an alehouse in London.
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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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No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage.
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Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
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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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The fool multitude, that choose by show, not learning more than the fond eye doth teach.
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Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!
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A king of infinite space
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Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.
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The wheel is come full circle.
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I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.
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Take all the swift advantage of the hours.
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O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven
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Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods, Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hear Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.
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The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.
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And I will make it felony to drink small beer.
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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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Eternity was in our lips and eyes.
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Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?