William Shakespeare Quotes
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For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally.
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Constant you are, But yet a woman; and for secrecy, No lady closer; for I well believe Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know.
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For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul, If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.
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I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
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For this relief, much thanks
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I have a kind soul that would give you thanks. And knows not how to do it but with tears.
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Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.
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Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
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She never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm 'i th' bud, feed on her damask cheek. She pinned in thought; and, with a green and yellow melancholy, she sat like Patience on a monument, smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed? We men may say more, swear more; but indeed our shows are more than will; for we still prove much in our vows but little in our love.
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Examine well your blood.
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Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence; the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature.
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He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.
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Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it.
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That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
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Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?
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Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.
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That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quenched them hath given me fire.
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The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.
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Withal I did infer your lineaments, Being the right idea of your father, Both in your form and nobleness of mind; Laid open all your victories in Scotland, Your discipline in war, wisdom in peace, Your bounty, virtue, fair humility; Indeed, left nothing fitting for your purpose Untouch'd or slightly handled in discourse.
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Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
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For she had eyes and chose me.
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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
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I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
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Grief makes one hour ten.