William Shakespeare Quotes
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And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
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To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To be angry is to move, to be brave is to stand still. Therefore, if you're angry, you'll run away.)
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Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.
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Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead. Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief Shore his old thread in twain.
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Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.
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Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, more than quick words, do move a woman's mind.
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Good morning to you, fair and gracious daughter.
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Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
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Myself will straight aboard, and to the state This heavy act with heavy heart relate.
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Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania
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Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
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Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle.
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Thy friendship makes us fresh.
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Tears water our growth.
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When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.
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Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack! At least we'll die with harness on our back.
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What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.
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No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.
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She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.
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Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
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I thought my heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion.
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This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest.
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Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart; for, truly, I love none. Beatrice: A dear happiness to women: they would else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me. -Much Ado About Nothing
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You are an alchemist; make gold of that.