William Shakespeare Quotes
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No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth
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Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
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For to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad?
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My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation.
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O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!
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The moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven.
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There is nothing but roguery to be found in villainous men.
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To you your father should be as a god.
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As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite, Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.
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The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.
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Nothing 'gainst Times scythe can make defence.
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Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth.
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How every fool can play upon the word!
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one pain is cured by another. catch some new infection in your eye and the poison of the old one would die.
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Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.
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We are such stuff that dreams are made of.
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It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.
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So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied.
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My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.
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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.