William Shakespeare Quotes
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I must be cruel, only to be kind.
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A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences.
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For she had eyes and chose me.
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I would not lose so great an honor As one man more methinks would share with me For the best hope I have.
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Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die.
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans.
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To be direct and honest is not safe.
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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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For love, thou know'st, is full of jealousy.
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My rage is gone, And I am struck with sorrow. Take him up. Help, three o' th' chiefest soldiers; I'll be one. Beat thou the drum, that it speaks mournfully, Trail your steel spikes. Though in this city he Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury, Yet he shall have a noble memory. Assist.
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Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.
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If yon bethink yourself of any crime Unreconcil'd as yet to heaven and grace, Solicit for it straight.
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I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood".
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Now the fair goddess, Fortune, Fall deep in love with thee, and her great charms Misguide thy opposers' swords!
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Benvolio- "By my head, here come the Capulets." Mercutio- "By my heel, I care not.
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Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking; I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent.
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Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust.
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How hard it is to hide the sparks of Nature!
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We bring forth weeds when our quick minds lie still.
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Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.
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O horror! Horror! Horror! Tongue nor heart Cannot conceive nor name thee!
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A thousand moral paintings I can show That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's More pregnantly than words.
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A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion-- To pray for them that have done scathe to us.
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And, if you love me, as I think you do, let's kiss and part, for we have much to do.