William Shakespeare Quotes
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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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He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
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And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.
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Thoughts are but dreams till their effects are tried.
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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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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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The prince of darkness is a gentleman!
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Marriage is a matter of more worth Than to be dealt in by attorneyship.
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Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle.
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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
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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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Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe
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So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.
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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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Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
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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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Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
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O madam, my old heart is cracked, it's cracked!
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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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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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Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot.
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A young man married is a man that's marred.
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Greatness knows itself.