William Shakespeare Quotes
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Dreams are the children of idled minds.
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A dream itself is but a shadow.
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To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.
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I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.
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A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with light weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.
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Vice repeated is like the wandering wind, blows dust in others' eyes to spread itself.
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Plain and not honest is too harsh a style.
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My wits begin to turn.
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All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
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O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven
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And Caesar shall go forth.
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I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?
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Therefore was I created with a stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that when I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in faith, Kate, the elder I wax, the better I shall appear. My comfort is that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. Thou hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst, and thou shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better.
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A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences.
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I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood".
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The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.
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You cannot make gross sins look clear: To revenge is no valour, but to bear.
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Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too.
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Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.
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It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.
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Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and thenthere is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks.
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The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb.
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I bear a charmed life, which must not yield To one of woman born.
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Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again.