William Shakespeare Quotes
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The time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were too long.
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Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects.
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The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.
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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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Fondling,' she saith, 'since I have hemm'd thee here Within the circuit of this ivory pale, I'll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer; Feed where thou wilt, on mountain or in dale: Graze on my lips, and if those hills be dry, Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.
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You had measured how long a fool you were upon the ground.
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Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears Moist it again, and frame some feeling line That may discover such integrity.
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Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. Then your love would also change.
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You speak an infinite deal of nothing.
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Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie, And young affection gapes to be his heir; That fair for which love groan'd for and would die, With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair.
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From this time forth My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!
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Be advised; Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself: we may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running. Know you not, The fire that mounts the liquor til run o'er, In seeming to augment it wastes it?
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He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends.
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Let's take the instant by the forward top; For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time Steals ere we can effect them.
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But thy eternal summer shall not fade.
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So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.
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Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.
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Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about There's scarce a bush.
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Haste is needful in a desperate case.
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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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Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
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Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurour and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's molds, all germens spill at once That make ingrateful man!
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Retire me to my Milan, where Every third thought shall be my grave.
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I swear again, I would not be a queen For all the world.