William Shakespeare Quotes
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Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience.
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Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I wasted time and now doth time waste me.
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There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee.
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I fill up a place, which may be better... when I have made it empty.
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Love adds a precious seeing to the eye.
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The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!
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Put money in thy purse.
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I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should be answered.
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At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.
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This thought is as a death.
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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
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If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening.
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Many dream not to find, neither deserve, and yet are steeped in favors.
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Stay, my lord, And let your reason with your choler question What 'tis you go about: to climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first: anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England Can advise me like you: be to yourself As you would to your friend.
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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.
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How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?
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It is my soul that calls upon my name; How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, like softest music to attending ears! -Romeo
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Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.
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The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
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If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
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These times of woe afford no time to woo.
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By that sin fell the angels.
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My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun.
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Some sins do bear their privilege on earth, And so doth yours: your fault was not your folly; Needs must you lay your heart at his dispose, Subjected tribute to commanding love, Against whose fury and unmatched force The aweless lion could not wage the fight Nor keep his princely heart from Richard's hand.