William Shakespeare Quotes
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You told a lie, an odious damned lie; Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie.
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Stay, my lord, And let your reason with your choler question What 'tis you go about: to climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first: anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England Can advise me like you: be to yourself As you would to your friend.
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Good counselors lack no clients.
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Speak on, but be not over-tedious.
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Such an act That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows As false as dicers' oaths.
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The hind that would be mated by the lion Must die for love.
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Remember thee! Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.
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I bear a charmed life, which must not yield To one of woman born.
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My love is thine to teach; teach it but how, And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn. Any hard lesson that may do thee good.
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Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.
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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 extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.
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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
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Suspicion shall be all stuck full of eyes.
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Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
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Is it possible that love should of a sudden take such a hold?
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Strong reasons make strong actions.
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Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.
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Even so; an't please your worship, Brakenbury, You may partake of any thing we say: We speak no treason, man; we say the King Is wise and virtuous, and his noble queen Well struck in years, fair, and not jealous; We say that Shore's wife hath a pretty foot, A cherry lip, a bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue; And that the Queen's kindred are made gentlefolks.
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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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My love admits no qualifying dross.
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If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly.
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You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves praised.
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Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.