William Shakespeare Quotes
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Conscience doth make cowards of us all.
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In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond.
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I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself; O, if I could, what grief should I forget!
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He that sleeps feels not the tooth-ache
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Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary
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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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Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.
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Oh what fools we mortals are.
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For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar; and't shall go hard But I will delve one yard below their mines And blow them at the moon.
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Dissembling harlot, thou art false in all!
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Plutus himself, That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine, Hath not in nature's mystery more science Than I have in this ring.
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If I be waspish, best beware my sting.
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Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey.
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Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would we could do so for her benefits are mightily misplaced and the bountiful blind girl doth most mistake in her gifts to women. 'Tis true for those that she makes fair she scarce makes honest and those that she makes honest she makes very ill-favouredly. Nay, now thou goest from Fortunes office to Natures. Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the lineaments of Nature.
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Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame.
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They are hare-brain'd slaves.
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I came, saw, and overcame.
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We will all laugh at gilded butterflies.
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Is it possible that love should of a sudden take such a hold?
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Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls.
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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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Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor
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Who is here so vile that will not love his country?
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Make use of time, let not advantage slip.