William Shakespeare Quotes
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When I was at home I was in a better place
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Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
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See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath! He that but fears the thing he would not know, Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes, That what he feared is chanced.
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Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man Still to remember wrongs?
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You cannot make gross sins look clear: To revenge is no valour, but to bear.
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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
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And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother
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Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly come out.
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There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind
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For I can raise no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas
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Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, Ang'ring itself and others.
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The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order.
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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.
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Tis a cruelty to load a fallen man.
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Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish.
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For love, thou know'st, is full of jealousy.
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All men's faces are true, whatsome'er their hands are.
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The why is plain as way to parish church: He that a fool doth very wisely hit Doth very foolishly, although he smart, Not to seem senseless of the bob; if not, The wise man's folly is anatomiz'd Even by the squand'ring glances of the fool.
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For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.
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Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.
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These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.
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No legacy is so rich as honesty.
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Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and thenthere is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks.
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Plain and not honest is too harsh a style.