William Shakespeare Quotes
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You know who you are, but know not who you could be.
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One pain is lessened by another's anguish.
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To this urn let those repair That are either true or fair; For these dead birds sigh a prayer.
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Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense?
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Hate pollutes the mind.
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I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.
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We bring forth weeds when our quick minds lie still.
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My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.
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I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself; O, if I could, what grief should I forget!
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A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences.
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We have some salt of our youth in us.
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It is a basilisk unto mine eye, Kills me to look on't.
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God grant us patience!
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Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!
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Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
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Let them obey that knows not how to rule.
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Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones; Who, though they cannot answer my distress, Yet in some sort they are better than the tribunes, For that they will not intercept my tale: When I do weep, they humbly at my feet Receive my tears and seem to weep with me; And, were they but attired in grave weeds, Rome could afford no tribune like to these.
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What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? Young son, it argues a distemper'd head So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed: Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie; But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.
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I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
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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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To beguile the time, look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue.
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O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.
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My rage is gone, And I am struck with sorrow. Take him up. Help, three o' th' chiefest soldiers; I'll be one. Beat thou the drum, that it speaks mournfully, Trail your steel spikes. Though in this city he Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury, Yet he shall have a noble memory. Assist.
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I am a subject, And I challenge law. Attorneys are denied me, And therefore personally I lay my claim To my inheritance of free descent.