William Shakespeare Quotes
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My love admits no qualifying dross.
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It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking.
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Determine on some course more than a wild exposure to each chance.
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O, call back yesterday, bid time return
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Come, Lady, die to live.
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No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage.
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I do desire we may be better strangers.
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I fill up a place, which may be better... when I have made it empty.
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You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves praised.
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Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth.
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In God's name cheerly on, courageous friends, To reap the harvest of perpetual peace By this one bloody trial of sharp war.
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Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would we could do so for her benefits are mightily misplaced and the bountiful blind girl doth most mistake in her gifts to women. 'Tis true for those that she makes fair she scarce makes honest and those that she makes honest she makes very ill-favouredly. Nay, now thou goest from Fortunes office to Natures. Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the lineaments of Nature.
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There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.
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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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Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things.
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Now the good gods forbid That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude Towards her deserved children is enrolled In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam Should now eat up her own!
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Make use of time, let not advantage slip.
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Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor
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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.
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I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.
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JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name? ORLANDO: Yes, just. JAQUES: I do not like her name. ORLANDO: There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened.
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Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engend'red in the eyes, With gazing fed, and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies.
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Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love And sing them loud even in the dead of night.
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Poor and content, is rich and rich enough; But riches, fineless, is as poor as winter, To him that ever fears he shall be poor.