William Shakespeare Quotes
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From this time forth My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!
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Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about There's scarce a bush.
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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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Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is!
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Fondling,' she saith, 'since I have hemm'd thee here Within the circuit of this ivory pale, I'll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer; Feed where thou wilt, on mountain or in dale: Graze on my lips, and if those hills be dry, Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.
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Haste is needful in a desperate case.
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I thought my heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion.
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Let's take the instant by the forward top; For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time Steals ere we can effect them.
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Myself will straight aboard, and to the state This heavy act with heavy heart relate.
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Thy food is such As hath been belch'd on by infected lungs.
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Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects.
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Marriage is a matter of more worth Than to be dealt in by attorneyship.
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Retire me to my Milan, where Every third thought shall be my grave.
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a young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief
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What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.
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And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.
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A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.
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All of Creation’s a farce. Man was born as a joke. In his head his reason is buffeted Like wind-blown smoke. Life is a game. Everyone ridicules everyone else. But he who has the last laugh Laughs longest.
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Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.
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I hold my peace, sir? no; No, I will speak as liberal as the north; Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.
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Poise the cause in justice's equal scales, Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.
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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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Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. Then your love would also change.
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O madam, my old heart is cracked, it's cracked!