William Shakespeare Quotes
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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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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.
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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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To beguile the time, look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue.
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Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood.
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Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face! I had rather lie in the woolen.
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There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind
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Now my charms are all o'erthrown, And what strength I have's mine own, Which is most faint: now, 'tis true, Or sent to Naples. Let me not, Since I have my dukedom got And pardon 'd the deceiver, dwell In this bare island by your spell; I must be here confined by you, But release me from my bands With the help of your good hands: Gentle breath of yours my sails Must fill, or else my project fails, Which was to please: now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant, And my ending is despair, Unless I be relieved by prayer, Which pierces so, that it assaults Mercy itself, and frees all faults. As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.
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A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers.
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But pearls are fair; and the old saying is: Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.
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There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.
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Blessed are the peacemakers on earth.
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That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)
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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
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You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves praised.
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I have a bone to pick with Fate
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No, by my soul, I never in my life Did hear a challenge urged more modestly, Unless a brother should a brother dare To gentle exercise and proof of arms.
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Good wine needs no bush.
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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.
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You are a tedious fool.
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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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God grant us patience!
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That which I would discover The law of friendship bids me to conceal.
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Well could he ride, and often men would say, "That horse his mettle from his rider takes: Proud of subjection, noble by the sway, What rounds, what bounds, what course, what stop he makes!" And controversy hence a question takes, Whether the horse by him became his deed, Or he his manage by the well-doing steed.