William Shakespeare Quotes
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Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity?
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When I was at home I was in a better place
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'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed, When not to be, receives reproach of being, And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed, Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing.
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Two loves I have, of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still: The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman coloured ill.
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The seasons change their manners, as the year Had found some months asleep and leapt them over.
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Determine on some course more than a wild exposure to each chance.
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Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.
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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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The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
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Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.
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Look how the world's poor people are amazed at apparitions, signs and prodigies!
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For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally.
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So many horrid Ghosts.
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Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
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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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A very ancient and fish-like smell.
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If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not As to thy friends; for when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend?
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You dull ass will not mend his pace with beating.
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This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.
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Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck, And yet methinks I have astronomy. But not to tell of good or evil luck, Of plagues, of dearths, or season's quality; Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell ... Or say with princes if it shall go well.
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I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation.
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Those that do teach young babes Do it with gentle means and easy tasks.
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Tis a cruelty to load a fallen man.
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A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent--sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.