William Shakespeare Quotes

Let us be Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon

Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge, That no king can corrupt.

Un-thread the rude eye of rebellion, and welcome home again discarded faith.

Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

Boldness be my friend.

Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame.

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer.

The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.

In nature's infinite book of secrecy A little I can read.

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

We are oft to blame in this, - 'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage, and pios action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should be answered.

Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures: ‘tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.

Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.

And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days.

Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.

I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you.

The heavenly-harness'd team Begins his golden progress in the east.

Love runs away from those chasing her, and those who run away, she throws herself on his neck.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both!

When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.

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.

He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.

Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

I'll fight, till from my bones my flesh be hacked.

Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?

We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quenched them hath given me fire.

O, I do not like that paying back, 'tis a double labor.

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!

The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.

All the world's a stage.

There's small choice in rotten apples.

Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.

Sweets to the sweet.

Men at some time are masters of their fates.

Dissembling harlot, thou art false in all!

If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage.