William Shakespeare Quotes
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In thy foul throat thou liest.
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A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers.
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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date . . .
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And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.
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Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short; He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding doth choke the feeder; Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.
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If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
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Have I thought long to see this morning’s face, And doth it give me such a sight as this?
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A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.
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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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All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.
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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.
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There is a river in Macedon, and there is moreover a river in Monmouth. It is called Wye at Monmouth, but it is out of my prains what is the name of the other river; but 'tis all one, 'tis alike as my fingers is to my fingers, and there is salmons in both.
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Then hate me when thou wilt, if ever, now.
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Highly fed and lowly taught.
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Ay, is it not a language I speak?
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Despair and die. The ghosts
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If money go before, all ways do lie open.
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What many men desire--that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show, Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach, Which pries not to th' interior, but like the martlet Builds in the weather on the outward wall, Even in the force and road of casualty.
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I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company.
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I thank you all and here dismiss you all, and to the love and favor of my country commit myself, my person, and the cause.
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Those that do teach young babes Do it with gentle means and easy tasks.
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The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole.
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This thought is as a death.
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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell.