William Shakespeare Quotes
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To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods.
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Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow.
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Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on.
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Falsehood falsehood cures
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I would not lose so great an honor As one man more methinks would share with me For the best hope I have.
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O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch! Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice?
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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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Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
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Fair youth, I would I could make thee believe I love.
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This blessèd plot, this earth, this realm, this England This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, . . . This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land.
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Gloucester, we have done deeds of charity, made peace of enmity, fair love of hate, between these swelling wrong-incensed peers.
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We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit By losing of our prayers.
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Let's all cry peace, freedom, and liberty!
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Love for thy love , and hand for hand I give.
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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
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Vice repeated is like the wandering wind, blows dust in others' eyes to spread itself.
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Are you up to your destiny?
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How every fool can play upon the word!
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The play's the thing.
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Put money in thy purse.
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Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
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A little water clears us of this deed.
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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.
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These times of woe afford no time to woo.