William Shakespeare Quotes
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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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Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee.
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Now the good gods forbid That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude Towards her deserved children is enrolled In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam Should now eat up her own!
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Who alone suffers suffers most i' th' mind, Leaving free things and happy shows behind; But then the mind much sufferance doth o'erskip When grief hath mates, and bearing fellowship.
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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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When great leaves fall, the winter is at hand.
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Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies.
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But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If you have ever looked on better days, If ever been where bells knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast, If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear, And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied, Let gentleness my strong enforcement be. . . .
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Time be thine, And thy best graces spend it at thy will.
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A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers.
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Time is a very bankrupt and owes more than he's worth to season. Nay, he's a thief too: have you not heard men say, That Time comes stealing on by night and day?
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If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
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To some kind of men their graces serve them but as enemies.
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If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.
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If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening.
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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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A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.
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I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company.
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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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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
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I must be cruel, only to be kind.
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The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see.
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A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion-- To pray for them that have done scathe to us.
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The heavens forbid But that our loves and comforts should increase Even as our days do grow!