William Shakespeare Quotes
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Kent. Where's the king? Gent. Contending with the fretful elements; Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, Or swell the curled waters 'bove the main, That things might change or cease; tears his white hair, Which the impetuous blasts, with eyeless rage, Catch in their fury and make nothing of; Strives in his little world of man to outscorn The to-and-fro-conflicting wind and rain. This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch, The lion and the belly-pinched wolf Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs, And bids what will take all.
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Read o'er this And after, this, and then to breakfast with What appetite you have.
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As love is full of unbefitting strains, All wanton as a child, skipping and vain, Form'd by the eye and therefore, like the eye, Full of strange shapes, of habits and of forms, Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll To every varied object in his glance
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Every cloud engenders not a storm.
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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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What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused.
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Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.
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They are hare-brain'd slaves.
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No villainous bounty yet hath passed my heart; Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given.
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To you your father should be as a god.
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Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone.
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If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly.
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Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.
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Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.
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Sweet are the uses of adversity
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Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.
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Speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee.
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Honor, riches, marriage-blessing Long continuance, and increasing, Hourly joys be still upon you!
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Weed your better judgments of all opinion that grows rank in them.
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The fool multitude, that choose by show, not learning more than the fond eye doth teach.
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It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.
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Remember thee! Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.
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The moon shines bright. In such a night as this. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and they did make no noise, in such a night.
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Why, headstrong liberty is lashed with woe. There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky.