William Shakespeare Quotes
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Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion
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When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner
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It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.
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Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, tomorrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him: The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And - when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening - nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
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I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, My figured goblets for a dish of wood, My scepter for a palmer's walking staff My subjects for a pair of carved saints and my large kingdom for a little grave.
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I see a man's life is a tedious one.
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This is the very coinage of your brain: this bodiless creation ecstasy.
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
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So loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven, Visit her face' too roughly.
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So are you to my thoughts as food to life, or as sweet seasoned showers are to the ground.
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Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
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. . from this moment The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand. And even now, To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done.
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Before, I loved thee as a brother, John, But now, I do respect thee as my soul.
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I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy.
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Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
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If I be waspish, best beware my sting.
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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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One sin another doth provoke.
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I do repent; but heaven hath pleas'd it so To punish me with this, and this with me, That I must be their scourge and minister. I will bestow him, and will answer well The death I gave him. So again good night. I must be cruel only to be kind. Thus bad begins and worse remains behind.
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I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.