William Shakespeare Quotes
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Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth, And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out.
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He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
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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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My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
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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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The prince of darkness is a gentleman!
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And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.
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Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
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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 to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness!
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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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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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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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Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
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But thy eternal summer shall not fade.
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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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Marriage is a matter of more worth Than to be dealt in by attorneyship.
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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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Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.
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O madam, my old heart is cracked, it's cracked!
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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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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.