William Shakespeare Quotes
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A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences.
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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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An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.
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Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.
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I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.
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Despair and die. The ghosts
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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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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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Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
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A man can die but once.
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Because I cannot flatter and look fair, Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog, Duck with French nods and apish courtesy, I must be held a rancorous enemy.
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Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.
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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
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When law can do no right, Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.
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I can hardly forbear hurling things at him.
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But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If you have ever looked on better days, If ever been where bells knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast, If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear, And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied, Let gentleness my strong enforcement be. . . .
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All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.
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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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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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Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules, but beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. I was a coward on instinct.
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I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
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Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.
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The heavens forbid But that our loves and comforts should increase Even as our days do grow!
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If yon bethink yourself of any crime Unreconcil'd as yet to heaven and grace, Solicit for it straight.