William Shakespeare Quotes
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it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance
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Faith, stay here this night; they will surely do us no harm; you saw they speak us fair, give us gold; methinks they are such a gentle nation that, but for the mountain of mad flesh that claims marriage of me, could find in my heart to stay here still and turn witch.
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Gold--what can it not do, and undo?
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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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Love adds a precious seeing to the eye.
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I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none
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He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy.
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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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Of all the flowers, me thinks a rose is best.
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A dream itself is but a shadow.
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The nature of bad news affects the teller.
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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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Thou unfit for any place but hell.
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He that dies this year is quit for the next.
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In thy foul throat thou liest.
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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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Many dream not to find, neither deserve, and yet are steeped in favors.
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He receives comfort like cold porridge.
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DEMETRIUS Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield Thy crazed title to my certain right. LYSANDER You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him.
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Like madness, is the glory of this life.
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Rich honesty dwells like a miser, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.
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Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained; and in him that escapes, it were no sin to think that, making God so free an offer, He let him outlive the day to see His greatness and to teach others how they should prepare.
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A poor thing, perhaps, but my own.
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A great cause of the night is lack of the sun.