William Shakespeare Quotes
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Gently to hear, kindly to judge.
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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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For we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.
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For conspiracy, I know not how it tastes, though it be dished For me to try how.
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Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.
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You peasant swain! You whoreson malt-horse drudge!
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Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha' lost my reputation, I ha' lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!
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You are my true and honourable wife; As dear to me as the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart.
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There is nothing serious in Mortality
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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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Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones; Who, though they cannot answer my distress, Yet in some sort they are better than the tribunes, For that they will not intercept my tale: When I do weep, they humbly at my feet Receive my tears and seem to weep with me; And, were they but attired in grave weeds, Rome could afford no tribune like to these.
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Truth needs no color; beauty, no pencil.
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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.
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Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
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Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.
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Were it good To set the exact wealth of all our states All at one cast? to set so rich a main On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour? It were not good.
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The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.
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England is safe, if true within itself.
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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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By innocence I swear, and by my youth, I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth, And that no woman has, nor never none Shall mistress be of it save I alone.
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Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day.
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That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.
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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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Yet, for I know thou art religious And hast a thing within thee called conscience, With twenty popish tricks and ceremonies Which I have seen thee careful to observe, Therefore I urge thy oath; for that I know An idiot holds his bauble for a god And keeps the oath which by that god he swears, To that I'll urge him: therefore thou shalt vow By that same god, what god soe'er it be, That thou adorest and hast in reverence, To save my boy, to nourish and bring him up, Or else I will discover naught to thee.