William Shakespeare Quotes
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Thou knowest, winter tames man, woman, and beast.
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The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
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I know them, yea, And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple; Scambling, out-facing, fashion-mong'ring boys, That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave, and slander, Go antickly, and show outward hideousness, And speak off half a dozen dangerous words, How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst; And this is all.
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Listen to many, speak to a few.
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Look what thy soul holds dear, imagine it To lie that way thou goest, not whence thou com'st. Suppose the singing birds musicians, The grass whereon thou tread'st the presence strewed, The flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no more Than a delight measure or a dance; For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light.
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Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way.
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Our wills and fates do so contrary run.
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Love is begun by time and time qualifies the spark and fire of it.
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How strange or odd some'er I bear myself, As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on.
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No doubt they rose up early to observe the rite of May; and, hearing our intent, Came here in grace of our solemnity.
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Sweet are the uses of adversity
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Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.
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Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.
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If I be waspish, best beware my sting.
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If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts against their father, fool me not so much to bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger, and let not women's weapons, water drops, stain my man's cheeks.
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Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.
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There is a history in all men's lives.
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Tis not a year or two shows us a man: They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full They belch us.
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They are hare-brain'd slaves.
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Fair youth, I would I could make thee believe I love.
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And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.
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Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.
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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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He was too good to be Where ill men were, and was the best of all Amongst the rar'st of good ones- sitting sadly Hearing us praise our loves of Italy For beauty that made barren the swell'd boast Of him that best could speak; for feature, laming The shrine of Venus or straight-pight Minerva, Postures beyond brief nature; for condition, A shop of all the qualities that man Loves woman for; besides that hook of wiving, Fairness which strikes the eye- CYMBELINE.