William Shakespeare Quotes
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A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.
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But yet, I say, if imputation and strong circumstances, which lead directly to the door of truth, will give you satisfaction, you may have it.
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But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.
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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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Shall we upon the footing of our land Send fair-play orders, and make compromise, Insinuation, parley, and base truce, To arms invasive?
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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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Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with its sweet oblivious antidote, cleanse the full bosom of all perilous stuff that weighs upon the heart.
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My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows, I am roughand lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.
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If yon bethink yourself of any crime Unreconcil'd as yet to heaven and grace, Solicit for it straight.
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Every subject's duty is the Kings, but every subject's soul is his own.
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O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !
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The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
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You peasant swain! You whoreson malt-horse drudge!
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For conspiracy, I know not how it tastes, though it be dished For me to try how.
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Lords, knights and gentlemen, what I should say My tears gainsay; for every word I speak, Ye see I drink the water of my eye.
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Let them obey that knows not how to rule.
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If I be waspish, best beware my sting.
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You are my true and honourable wife; As dear to me as the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart.
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Constant you are, But yet a woman; and for secrecy, No lady closer; for I well believe Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know.
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They were devils incarnate.
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Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.
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The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.
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When law can do no right, Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.
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Then hate me when thou wilt, if ever, now.