William Shakespeare Quotes
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Retire me to my Milan, where Every third thought shall be my grave.
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And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.
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Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart; for, truly, I love none. Beatrice: A dear happiness to women: they would else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me. -Much Ado About Nothing
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Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. Then your love would also change.
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Poise the cause in justice's equal scales, Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.
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All of Creation’s a farce. Man was born as a joke. In his head his reason is buffeted Like wind-blown smoke. Life is a game. Everyone ridicules everyone else. But he who has the last laugh Laughs longest.
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That we would do We should do when we would, for this 'would' changes, And hath abatements and delays as many As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents, And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh, That hurts by easing.
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And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence
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Why, this hath not a finger's dignity.
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O madam, my old heart is cracked, it's cracked!
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Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
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Thoughts are but dreams till their effects are tried.
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My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
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Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.
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Sound trumpets! Let our bloody colours wave! And either victory, or else a grave.
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Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth, And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out.
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Taste your legs, sire: put them into motion.
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A politician... one that would circumvent God.
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Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.
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Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.
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Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose. For whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed.
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You speak an infinite deal of nothing.
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Were't not for laughing, I should pity him.
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Why should you think that I should woo in scorn? Scorn and derision never come in tears: Look, when I vow, I weep; and vows so born, In their nativity all truth appears. How can these things in me seem scorn to you, Bearing the badge of faith, to prove them true?