William Shakespeare Quotes
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He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo.
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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
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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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The band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity.
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Free from gross passion or of mirth of anger constant spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither? Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.
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No worse a husband than the best of men.
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Then others for breath of words respect, Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect.
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We have some salt of our youth in us.
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Time is a very bankrupt and owes more than he's worth to season. Nay, he's a thief too: have you not heard men say, That Time comes stealing on by night and day?
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I was born free as Caesar; so were you
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Blood will have blood.
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Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee!
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A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.
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Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.
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Say as you think and speak it from your souls.
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So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.
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Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds.
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No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here.
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O my good lord, that comfort comes too late, 'Tis like a pardon after execution. That gentle physic, given in time, had cured me; But now I am past all comforts here but prayers.
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Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?
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A plague on both your houses.
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If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.
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My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
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Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yeomen! Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head! Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood; Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!