William Shakespeare Quotes
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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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A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!
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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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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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Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?
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All the world's a stage.
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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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What thing, in honor, had my father lost, That need to be revived and breathed in me?
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So many horrid Ghosts.
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Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's and truth's.
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Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?
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If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say, 'This poet lies; Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'
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An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind.
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I can see his pride Peep through each part of him.
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She told her, while she kept it, 'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father Entirely to her love, but if she lost it Or made a gift of it, my father's eye Should hold her loathed and his spirits should hunt After new fancies.
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England is safe, if true within itself.
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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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Passion makes the will lord of the reason.
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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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I never yet did hear, That the bruis'd heart was pierced through the ear
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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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For conspiracy, I know not how it tastes, though it be dished For me to try how.
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Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow.
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Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.