William Shakespeare Quotes

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

The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.

By being seldom seen, I could not stir But like a comet I was wondered at.

Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it.

What is past is prologue.

They met so near with their lips that their breaths embraced together.

... the spring, the summer, The chilling autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world By their increase, now knows not which is which.

The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.

What's done cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed.

What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery?

In delay there lies no plenty.

It is not night when I do see your face.

Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.

Our holy lives must win a new world's crown.

How my achievements mock me!

Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief

Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that.

Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

The icy precepts of respect.

He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which enriches him and makes me poor indeed.

Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles.

Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

It is the very error of the moon; She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, And makes men mad.

We should hold day with the Antipodes, If you would walk in absence of the sun.

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.

The instances that second marriage move Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine, Thou robb'st me of a moiety.

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.

A tardiness in nature, Which often leaves the history unspoke, That it intends to do.

There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.

It is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds, Which shackles accidents and bolts up change.

Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that And manage it against despairing thoughts.

The rain, it raineth every day.

one pain is cured by another. catch some new infection in your eye and the poison of the old one would die.

Blessed are the peacemakers on earth.

The readiness is all.

Headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.

I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath; Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.

No place indeed should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds.

From this time forth My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!