William Shakespeare Quotes
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Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.
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No, by my soul, I never in my life Did hear a challenge urged more modestly, Unless a brother should a brother dare To gentle exercise and proof of arms.
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I came, saw, and overcame.
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And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother
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The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb.
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Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on.
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He that sleeps feels not the tooth-ache
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Gloucester, we have done deeds of charity, made peace of enmity, fair love of hate, between these swelling wrong-incensed peers.
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Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority-a dog's obeyed in office.
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Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.
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To be direct and honest is not safe.
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I myself am best When least in company.
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More of your conversation would infect my brain.
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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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Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
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How every fool can play upon the word!
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Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye.
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Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
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There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind
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I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy.
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'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
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Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion
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Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood.
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Love for thy love , and hand for hand I give.