William Shakespeare Quotes
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Go hang yourself, you naughty mocking uncle!
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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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What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her?
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Yea from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records.
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O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven
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Being your slave what should I do but tend, Upon the hours, and times of your desire? I have no precious time at all to spend; Nor services to do till you require.
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We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.
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Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.
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Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.
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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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This is the very coinage of your brain: this bodiless creation ecstasy.
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Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
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The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony.
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Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.
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This above all; to thine own self be true.
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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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A light heart lives long.
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A king of infinite space
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One sin another doth provoke.
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The devil knew what he did when he made men politic; he crossed himself by it.
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
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Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won
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I do begin to have bloody thoughts.
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He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.