William Shakespeare Quotes
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We are ready to try our fortunes to the last man.
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And Caesar shall go forth.
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Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.
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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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But yet, I say, if imputation and strong circumstances, which lead directly to the door of truth, will give you satisfaction, you may have it.
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Eternity was in our lips and eyes, Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor But was a race of heaven.
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That but this blow Might be the be-all and the end – all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'ld jump the life to come.
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Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha' lost my reputation, I ha' lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!
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Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven, shall behold the night of our solemnities.
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Thus may poor fools Belive false teachers.
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That is my home of love: if I have ranged, Like him that travels I return again, Just to the time, not with the time exchanged.
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Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!
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what cannot be saved when fate takes, patience her injury a mockery makes
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The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious.
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Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words
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Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire; that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
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Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
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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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Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience.
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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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So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.
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Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
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This blessèd plot, this earth, this realm, this England This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, . . . This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land.
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Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.