William Shakespeare Quotes
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I'll read enough When I do see the very book indeed Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself.
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My love admits no qualifying dross.
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Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep.
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If the masses can love without knowing why, they also hate without much foundation.
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It is my soul that calls upon my name; How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, like softest music to attending ears! -Romeo
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You told a lie, an odious damned lie; Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie.
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But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.
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Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'd a blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality: All is but toys; renown, and grace is dead; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.
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No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
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O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do.
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My love is thine to teach; teach it but how, And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn. Any hard lesson that may do thee good.
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Tis the mind that makes the body rich.
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Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules, but beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. I was a coward on instinct.
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But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day.
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As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
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Put money in thy purse.
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You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him!
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O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is montegue? tis nor hand nor foot nor any other part belonging to a man What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, So Romeo would were he not Romeo called retain such dear perfection to which he owes without that title, Romeo, Doth thy name! And for that name which is no part of thee, take all thyself.
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How many a holy and obsequious tear hath dear religious love stolen from mine eye, as interest of the dead!
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There's a time for all things.
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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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To persist in doing wrong extenuates not the wrong, but makes it much more heavy.
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Because I cannot flatter and look fair, Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog, Duck with French nods and apish courtesy, I must be held a rancorous enemy.
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Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.