William Shakespeare Quotes
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You wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange wife and a fosset-seller.
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I am a subject, And I challenge law. Attorneys are denied me, And therefore personally I lay my claim To my inheritance of free descent.
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So loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven, Visit her face' too roughly.
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Sin will pluck on sin.
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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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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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The deep of night is crept upon our talk, And Nature must obey necessity.
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Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.
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The coward dies a thousand deaths, the valiant, only once!
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Ingratitude is monstrous.
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All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may.
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The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.
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A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.... If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.
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Pause awhile, And let my counsel sway you.
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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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what cannot be saved when fate takes, patience her injury a mockery makes
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We were not born to sue, but to command.
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In sooth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me, you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn.
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Nothing in his life became him like leaving it.
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Nothing 'gainst Times scythe can make defence.
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To this urn let those repair That are either true or fair; For these dead birds sigh a prayer.
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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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Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well, Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinable gum. Set you down this, And say besides that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by th' throat the circumcised dog And smote him thus.
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Though inclination be as sharp as will, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect.