William Shakespeare Quotes
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A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.
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To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To be angry is to move, to be brave is to stand still. Therefore, if you're angry, you'll run away.)
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Not an angel of the air, Bird melodious or bird fair, Be absent hence!
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I thought my heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion.
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I swear again, I would not be a queen For all the world.
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The time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were too long.
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From this time forth My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!
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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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Poise the cause in justice's equal scales, Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.
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O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
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You lack the season of all natures, sleep.
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You are an alchemist; make gold of that.
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Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects.
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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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Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
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Retire me to my Milan, where Every third thought shall be my grave.
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Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. Then your love would also change.
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And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.
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Marriage is a matter of more worth Than to be dealt in by attorneyship.
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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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My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
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You speak an infinite deal of nothing.
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And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once That makes ingrateful man!
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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.