William Shakespeare Quotes
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O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth: The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.
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Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.
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Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.
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I cannot but remember such things were that were most precious to me.
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I'll read enough When I do see the very book indeed Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself.
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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
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Now the good gods forbid That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude Towards her deserved children is enrolled In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam Should now eat up her own!
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JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name? ORLANDO: Yes, just. JAQUES: I do not like her name. ORLANDO: There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened.
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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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These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain or by rushy brook, Or in the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport.
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The seasons change their manners, as the year Had found some months asleep and leapt them over.
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Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.
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Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies.
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Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending.
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I'll teach you differences.
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Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible!
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Tis not a year or two shows us a man: They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full They belch us.
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A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion-- To pray for them that have done scathe to us.
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O, but they say, the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain: for they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. he, that no more must say, is listened more than they whom youth and ease have taught to gloze; more are men's ends marked, than their lives before: the setting sun, and music at the close, as the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last; writ in rememberance more than things long past
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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.
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Love adds a precious seeing to the eye.
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Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck, And yet methinks I have astronomy. But not to tell of good or evil luck, Of plagues, of dearths, or season's quality; Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell ... Or say with princes if it shall go well.
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The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.