William Shakespeare Quotes
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For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know.
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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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Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land, To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe; And craves no other tribute at thy hands But love, fair looks and true obedience; Too little payment for so great a debt.
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Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me.
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Ingratitude is monstrous.
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I hope to see London once ere I die.
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The fool multitude, that choose by show, not learning more than the fond eye doth teach.
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How every fool can play upon the word!
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Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born, To signify thou camest to bite the world.
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One sin another doth provoke.
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How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care, Their bones with industry.
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So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!
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His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.
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Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
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For I am fresh of spirit, and resolved To meet all perils very constantly.
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But say, my lord, it were not regist'red, Methinks the truth should live from age to age, As 'twere retailed to all posterity, Even to the general all-ending day.
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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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What's done is done. The joy is in the doing.
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They are hare-brain'd slaves.
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O tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide!
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Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
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To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
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The world must be peopled!
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Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.