William Shakespeare Quotes

Love's not love When it is mingled with regards that stand Aloof from th' entire point.

And it is very much lamented,... That you have no such mirrors as will turn Your hidden worthiness into your eye That you might see your shadow.

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks

Upon thy cheek I lay this zealous kiss, as seal to the indenture of my love.

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!

I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.

Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.

Thus can the demigod Authority Make us pay down for our offense by weight The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will, On whom it will not, so: yet still 'tis just.

He doth nothing but talk of his horses.

And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.

This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-Paradise.

Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.

In nature there's no blemish but the mind. None can be called deformed but the unkind.

O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!

She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.

Exit, pursued by a bear.

Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank Here we will sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness, and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony

What is the city but the people?

A young man married is a man that's marred.

Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.

Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.

Parting is such sweet sorrow

For she had eyes and chose me.

This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.

Drink down all unkindness.

Knit your hearts with an unslipping knot.

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.

Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls.

Being your slave what should I do but tend, Upon the hours, and times of your desire? I have no precious time at all to spend; Nor services to do till you require.

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.

When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall then winter is at hand.

For naught so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give.

I am wrapped in dismal thinking.

Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love And sing them loud even in the dead of night.

Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

I doubt not then but innocence shall makeFalse accusation blush, and tyrannyTremble at patience.

To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm.

Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love.

What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.

where civil blood makes civil hands unclean

A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!

O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From the world-wearied flesh