William Shakespeare Quotes

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

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

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

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

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

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

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?

Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles.

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

The icy precepts of respect.

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

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.

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.

Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.

Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

The cunning livery of hell.

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

Talkers are no good doers.

Men in rage strike those that wish them best.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

What a fool honesty is.

[Thine] face is not worth sunburning.

She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

Like a red morn that ever yet betokened, Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field, Sorrow to the shepherds, woe unto the birds, Gusts and foul flaws to herdmen and to herds.

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

Every why has a wherefore.

Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies

Tis ever common That men are merriest when they are from home.

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

Watch tonight, pray tomorrow. Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you!

Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.

Death lies on her like an untimely frost.

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

This world to me is like a lasting storm,Whirring me from my friends.

A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts.

Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.

Forget, forgive; conclude, and be agreed.

Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.

Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.

I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.

Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.

His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!

Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires: The eyes wink at the hand; yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see

I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged.

A peevish self-willed harlotry it is. *She’s a stubborn little brat.*

The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.