William Shakespeare Quotes

I kissed thee ere I killed thee. No way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.

There is plenty of time to sleep in the grave

But thy eternal summer shall not fade.

O tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide!

The worm is not to be trusted.

Good with out evil is like light with out darkness which in turn is like righteousness whith out hope.

Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.

For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.

Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?

I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood".

Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish.

O braggart vile and damned furious wight!

Put on The dauntless spirit of resolution.

There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.

This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad.

Farewell, fair cruelty.

Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.

Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm.

This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid; Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege of all loiterers and malcontents.

For we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.

Heaven - the treasury of everlasting life.

The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.

Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it.

Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.

Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue; For all the water in the ocean Can never turn the swan's black legs to white, Although she lave them hourly in the flood.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

O, the difference of man and man! To thee a woman's services are due.

Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.

O gentle son, Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper, sprinkle cool patience.

Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just.

If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me.

Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.

Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.

Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God, My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee.

Prosperity's the very bond of love.

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 . . .

wert thou as far As that vast shore washed with the farthest sea, I would adventure for such merchandise.

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.

The insolence of office.

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

true apothecary thy drugs art quick

Making night hideous.

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

Much rain wears the marble.

A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.

...and then, in dreaming, / The clouds methought would open and show riches / Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked / I cried to dream again.