William Shakespeare Quotes
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Take pains. Be perfect.
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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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Will Fortune never come with both hands full, But write her fair words still in foulest terms?
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thus with a kiss I die
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Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger.
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Of all the fair resort of gentlemen That every day with parle encounter me, In thy opinion which is worthiest love?
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Withal I did infer your lineaments, Being the right idea of your father, Both in your form and nobleness of mind; Laid open all your victories in Scotland, Your discipline in war, wisdom in peace, Your bounty, virtue, fair humility; Indeed, left nothing fitting for your purpose Untouch'd or slightly handled in discourse.
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Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone.
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Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
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What, keep a week away? Seven days and nights, Eightscore-eight hours, and lovers' absent hours More tedious than the dial eightscore times! O weary reckoning!
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An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.
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My love admits no qualifying dross.
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Weed your better judgments of all opinion that grows rank in them.
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It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity, by being once lost, may be ten times found: by being ever kept, it is ever lost. ’Tis too cold a companion: away with ’t!
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To beguile the time, look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue.
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The deep of night is crept upon our talk, And Nature must obey necessity.
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We should hold day with the Antipodes, If you would walk in absence of the sun.
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To persist in doing wrong extenuates not the wrong, but makes it much more heavy.
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Some sins do bear their privilege on earth, And so doth yours: your fault was not your folly; Needs must you lay your heart at his dispose, Subjected tribute to commanding love, Against whose fury and unmatched force The aweless lion could not wage the fight Nor keep his princely heart from Richard's hand.
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There's a time for all things.
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That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
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This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.
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You know who you are, but know not who you could be.
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Put money in thy purse.