William Shakespeare Quotes
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Some falls the means are happier to rise.
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Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation
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Then hate me when thou wilt, if ever, now.
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He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf.
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We will meet; and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously.
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Love thyself last, cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty.
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Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.
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I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
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They say miracles are past.
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in black ink my love may still shine bright.
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Examine well your blood.
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Be collected. No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart There's no harm done.
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The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose, And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set. The spring, the summer, The childing autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries, and the mazed world, By their increase, now knows not which is which.
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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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Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking; I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent.
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So may I, blind fortune leading me, Miss that which one unworthier may attain, And die with grieving.
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Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.
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I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire.
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I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
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I bear a charmed life.
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Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity?
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Those that do teach young babes Do it with gentle means and easy tasks.
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Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain.
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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.