William Shakespeare Quotes
-
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
-
Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born, To signify thou camest to bite the world.
-
That island of England breeds very valiant creatures; their mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.
-
He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. (Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost, IV)
-
Value dwells not in particular will; It holds his estimate and dignity As well wherein 'tis precious of itself As in the prizer.
-
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
-
My love is thaw'd; Which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.
-
That which I would discover The law of friendship bids me to conceal.
-
There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail.
-
She's good, being gone.
-
Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.
-
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
-
Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me.
-
Because I cannot flatter and look fair, Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog, Duck with French nods and apish courtesy, I must be held a rancorous enemy.
-
They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.
-
Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith; But hollow men, like horses hot at hand, Make gallant show and promise of their mettle; But when they should endure the bloody spur, They fall their crests, and like deceitful jades Sink in the trial.
-
Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep.
-
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
-
Sweet are the uses of adversity
-
I have a bone to pick with Fate
-
The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony.
-
For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase.
-
The wildest hath not such a heart as you. Run when you will, the story shall be changed: Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase; The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed, When cowardice pursues and valour flies.
-
Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey.