William Shakespeare Quotes

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!

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.*

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

If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.

Blessings of your heart, you brew good ale.

Now I am past all comforts here, but prayer.

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

I do know when the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows.

Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose to the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, and in the calmest and most stillest night, with all appliances and means to boot, deny it to a king?

And I will make it felony to drink small beer.

Stones have been known to move and trees to speak.

I hourly learn a doctrine of obedience.

Now entertain conjecture of a time When creeping murmur and the poring dark Fills the wide vessel of the universe.

Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky!

Inconstancy falls off ere it begins.

When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation.

A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.

In maiden meditation, fancy free.

I prithee gentle friend, Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passions, sway In this uncivil and unjust extent Against thy peace.

The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.

A man can die but once.

That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.

Corruption wins not more than honesty.

He must needs go that the devil drives.

I go, I go, look how I go, swifter than an arrow from a bow

If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.

There's a time for all things.

Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.

Assume a virtue if you have it not.

If I be waspish, best beware my sting.

I will make thee think thy swan a crow.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)

I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire.

The rest, is silence.

Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come

For trust not him that hath once broken faith

Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once.

Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs.

The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing, and think it were not night.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.

In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life.

Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.

A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.

We may outrun By violent swiftness And lose by over-running.

Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.

Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.

Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.