William Shakespeare Quotes
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Tis a cruelty to load a fallen man.
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What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend? Since everyone hath every one, one shade, And you, but one, can every shadow lend. Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit Is poorly imitated after you. On Helen’s cheek all art of beauty set, And you in Grecian tires are painted new. Speak of the spring and foison of the year; The one doth shadow of your beauty show, The other as your bounty doth appear, And you in every blessèd shape we know. In all external grace you have some part, But you like none, none you, for constant heart.
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Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.
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I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none
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Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.
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That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand th' account of hours to crave, Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure.
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Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man Still to remember wrongs?
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Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
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Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again.
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You must confine yourself within the modest limits of order.
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To some kind of men their graces serve them but as enemies.
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Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, Ang'ring itself and others.
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For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger; At whose approach ghosts wandring here and there Troop home to church-yards.... For fear lest day should look their shames upon, They willfully exile themselves from light, And must for aye consort with black brow'd night.
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While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.
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He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. (Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost, IV)
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Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.
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He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy.
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Miracles are ceased; and therefore we must needs admit the means, how things are perfected.
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My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows, I am roughand lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.
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Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.
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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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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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'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay. The bay trees in our country are all wither'd.
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A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!