William Shakespeare Quotes
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My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
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And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.
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He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
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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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Thoughts are but dreams till their effects are tried.
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The prince of darkness is a gentleman!
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Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurour and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's molds, all germens spill at once That make ingrateful man!
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Marriage is a matter of more worth Than to be dealt in by attorneyship.
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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
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Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle.
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Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
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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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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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Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie, And young affection gapes to be his heir; That fair for which love groan'd for and would die, With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair.
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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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O madam, my old heart is cracked, it's cracked!
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Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
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So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.
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A young man married is a man that's marred.
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A lean cheek; which you have not: a blue eye, and sunken; which you have not: an unquestionable spirit; which you have not: a beard neglected; which you have not: — but I pardon you for that; for, simply, your having1 in beard is a younger brother's revenue: — Then your hose should be ungarter'd, your bonnet unhanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and every thing about you demonstrating a careless desolation.
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You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave.
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Minutes, hours, days, months, and years, Pass'd over to the end they were created, Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. Ah, what a life were this!
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Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.
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Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.