William Shakespeare Quotes
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Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending.
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Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and thenthere is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks.
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For love, thou know'st, is full of jealousy.
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When great leaves fall, the winter is at hand.
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And will he not come again? And will he not come again? No, no, he is dead. Go to thy deathbed. He never will come again.
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The one I love is the son of the one I hate!
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Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds.
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In delay there lies no plenty.
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Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee.
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My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.
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But there is no such man; for, brother, men Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it, Their counsel turns to passion, which before Would give preceptial medicine to rage, Fetter strong madness in a silken thread, Charm ache with air and agony with words.
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These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain or by rushy brook, Or in the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport.
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What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused.
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How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?
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Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole.
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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.
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Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.
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Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust.
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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
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The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see.
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My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun.
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I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company.
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Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine, Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state, Makes me with thy strength to communicate.
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Tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.