William Shakespeare Quotes
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
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Haste is needful in a desperate case.
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Retire me to my Milan, where Every third thought shall be my grave.
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A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.
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The prince of darkness is a gentleman!
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Sound trumpets! Let our bloody colours wave! And either victory, or else a grave.
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I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O list!
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Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe
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My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
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And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness!
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Thoughts are but dreams till their effects are tried.
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And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once That makes ingrateful man!
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And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.
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Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.
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The crown o' the earth doth melt. My lord! O, wither'd is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fall'n: young boys and girls Are level now with men; the odds is gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon.
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A politician... one that would circumvent God.
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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
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And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence
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Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.
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Why should you think that I should woo in scorn? Scorn and derision never come in tears: Look, when I vow, I weep; and vows so born, In their nativity all truth appears. How can these things in me seem scorn to you, Bearing the badge of faith, to prove them true?
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I rather would entreat thy company; To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
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Either our history shall with full mouth Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave, Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth, Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph.
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Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
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Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.