William Shakespeare Quotes

I am giddy, expectation whirls me round. The imaginary relish is so sweet That it enchants my sense.

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

I would not wish any companion in the world but you.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lacking--God warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss.

My way of life Is fall'n into the sear and yellow leaf.

Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose. For whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed.

O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.

What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.

They do not love that do not show their love.

A light heart lives long.

The leopard does not change his spots.

What light through yonder window breaks?

Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.

He receives comfort like cold porridge.

O, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

Tears water our growth.

Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!

O, full of scorpions is my mind!

This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

Your worm is your only emperor for diet; we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots.

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

Love is the greatest of dreams, yet the worst of nightmares.

Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

These words are razors to my wounded heart.

There is a tide in the affairs of men

Remuneration! O! That's the Latin word for three farthings

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

My only love sprung from my only hate.

Nothing can come of nothing.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem.

Like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks.

No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.

My affection hath an unknown bottom, like the Bay of Portugal.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

To take arms against a sea of troubles.

You speak an infinite deal of nothing.

There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember.

POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words.

Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud. All men make faults.