William Shakespeare Quotes
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He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo.
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When I was at home I was in a better place
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Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.
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My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.
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My soul is in the sky.
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Hang him, swaggering rascal!
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I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire.
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Weep not, sweet queen, for trickling tears are vain.
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An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind.
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You cannot make gross sins look clear: To revenge is no valour, but to bear.
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Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha' lost my reputation, I ha' lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!
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My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun.
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Yet, for I know thou art religious And hast a thing within thee called conscience, With twenty popish tricks and ceremonies Which I have seen thee careful to observe, Therefore I urge thy oath; for that I know An idiot holds his bauble for a god And keeps the oath which by that god he swears, To that I'll urge him: therefore thou shalt vow By that same god, what god soe'er it be, That thou adorest and hast in reverence, To save my boy, to nourish and bring him up, Or else I will discover naught to thee.
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The nature of bad news affects the teller.
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My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows, I am roughand lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.
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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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While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.
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At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.
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Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.
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Because I cannot flatter and look fair, Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog, Duck with French nods and apish courtesy, I must be held a rancorous enemy.
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The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see.
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The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his wings He can at pleasure stint their melody: Even so mayest thou the giddy men of Rome.
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Suspicion shall be all stuck full of eyes.
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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.