William Shakespeare Quotes
-
Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.
-
Have I thought long to see this morning’s face, And doth it give me such a sight as this?
-
For conspiracy, I know not how it tastes, though it be dished For me to try how.
-
That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.
-
I scorn you, scurvy companion.
-
Time be thine, And thy best graces spend it at thy will.
-
Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Here's three on's are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more than such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.
-
A man cannot make him laugh - but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.
-
There is a world elsewhere.
-
I am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me, I must scratch.
-
O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?
-
Such an act That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows As false as dicers' oaths.
-
See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath! He that but fears the thing he would not know, Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes, That what he feared is chanced.
-
I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation.
-
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
-
Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and thenthere is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks.
-
Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate, Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving.
-
O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!
-
Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?
-
To be direct and honest is not safe.
-
Thus may poor fools Belive false teachers.
-
Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day.
-
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
-
The why is plain as way to parish church: He that a fool doth very wisely hit Doth very foolishly, although he smart, Not to seem senseless of the bob; if not, The wise man's folly is anatomiz'd Even by the squand'ring glances of the fool.