William Shakespeare Quotes
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But there is no such man; for, brother, men Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it, Their counsel turns to passion, which before Would give preceptial medicine to rage, Fetter strong madness in a silken thread, Charm ache with air and agony with words.
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The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
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Assume a virtue if you have it not.
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That is my home of love: if I have ranged, Like him that travels I return again, Just to the time, not with the time exchanged.
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A good heart is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes.
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I must be cruel, only to be kind.
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what cannot be saved when fate takes, patience her injury a mockery makes
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No worse a husband than the best of men.
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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
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The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see.
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Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.
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Pause awhile, And let my counsel sway you.
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A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion-- To pray for them that have done scathe to us.
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You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse
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What can be avoided Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?
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I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
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Can I go forward when my heart is here?
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I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nick-name God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath made me mad.
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Tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.
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A pal is one that is aware you while you are, understands where you have already been, accepts whatever you are becoming, and continue to, carefully means that you can develop.
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Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck, And yet methinks I have astronomy. But not to tell of good or evil luck, Of plagues, of dearths, or season's quality; Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell ... Or say with princes if it shall go well.
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Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.
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It easeth some, though none it ever cured, to think their dolour others have endured.
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Master, go on, and I will follow thee To the last gasp with truth and loyalty.