William Shakespeare Quotes
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There is nothing serious in Mortality
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Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
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Preposterous ass, that never read so far to know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of man, after his studies or his usual pain?
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You must confine yourself within the modest limits of order.
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Those that do teach young babes Do it with gentle means and easy tasks.
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The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see.
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'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay. The bay trees in our country are all wither'd.
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Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art, As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel; For well thou know'st to my dear doting heart Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel.
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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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It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in it.
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Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye.
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Thou unfit for any place but hell.
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Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.
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Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.
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Free from gross passion or of mirth of anger constant spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither? Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.
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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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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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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.
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This is some fellow, Who having been prais'd for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness and constrains the garb Quite from his nature: he can't flatter, he! An honest mind and plain,--he must speak truth! And they will take it so; if not he's plain. These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness Harbor more craft, and far corrupter ends, Than twenty silly, ducking observants, That stretch their duty nicely.
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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.