William Shakespeare Quotes
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When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh! the doxy, over the dale, Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year; For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing! Doth set my pugging tooth on edge; For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.
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My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation.
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Nothing 'gainst Times scythe can make defence.
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Speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee.
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And send him many years of sunshine days!
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Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger
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She's good, being gone.
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Angels and ministers of grace defend us.
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Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.
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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.
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Honor's thought Reigns solely in the breast of every man.
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Society is no comfort, to one not sociable.
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Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.
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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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Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.
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Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone.
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The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.
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Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
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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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How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
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That which I would discover The law of friendship bids me to conceal.
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As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.
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I bear a charmed life, which must not yield To one of woman born.
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You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves praised.