William Shakespeare Quotes
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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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If the masses can love without knowing why, they also hate without much foundation.
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Away, you cut-purse rascal! you filthy bung, away! By this wine, I'll thrust my knife in your mouldy chaps, an you play the saucy cuttle with me. Away, you bottle-ale rascal! you basket-hilt stale juggler, you!
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Good counselors lack no clients.
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That which I would discover The law of friendship bids me to conceal.
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When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.
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I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
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For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul, If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.
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He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.
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My love is thaw'd; Which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.
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What is past is prologue.
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Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.
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What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
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My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.
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Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion.
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Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st.
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I say, without characters, fame lives long.
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By that sin fell the angels.
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I profess not talking: only this, Let each man do his best.
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But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.
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Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; And after summer evermore succeeds Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.
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By being seldom seen, I could not stir But like a comet I was wondered at.
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Still constant is a wondrous excellence.
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There is nothing serious in Mortality