William Shakespeare Quotes
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This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?
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But pearls are fair; and the old saying is: Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.
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If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.
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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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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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I fill up a place, which may be better... when I have made it empty.
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A very ancient and fish-like smell.
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Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.
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A plague on both your houses.
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Weep not, sweet queen, for trickling tears are vain.
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Dreams are the children of idled minds.
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Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud. All men make faults.
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Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man Still to remember wrongs?
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You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse
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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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Determine on some course more than a wild exposure to each chance.
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Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, Ang'ring itself and others.
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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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A thousand moral paintings I can show That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's More pregnantly than words.
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Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies.
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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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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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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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How long a time lies in one little word?