William Shakespeare Quotes
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Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey.
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And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
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The fool multitude, that choose by show, not learning more than the fond eye doth teach.
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Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom passing fair, Playing in the wanton air: Through the velvet leaves the wind, All unseen can passage find; That the lover, sick to death, Wish'd himself the heaven's breath.
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O, let me kiss that hand! KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.
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The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?
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Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.
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There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.
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Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both.
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Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that. It was the very day that young Hamlet was born, he that is mad and sent into England." "Ay, marry, why was he sent into England?" "Why, because he was mad. He shall recover his wits there, or, if he do not, it's no great matter there." "Why?" "'Twill not be seen in him there. There the men are as mad as he.
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When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner
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But virtue never will be mov'd, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven.
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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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You have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead.
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But say, my lord, it were not regist'red, Methinks the truth should live from age to age, As 'twere retailed to all posterity, Even to the general all-ending day.
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I kissed thee ere I killed thee. No way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.
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Every subject's duty is the Kings, but every subject's soul is his own.
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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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Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep.
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Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
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False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
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Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
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My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice Infects one comma in the course I hold, But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind.
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Wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort.