William Shakespeare Quotes

It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.

Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Let me be boiled to death with melancholy.

Love is . . . a madness most discreet

Sometimes when we are labeled, when we are branded our brand becomes our calling.

Ay me! sad hours seem long.

The third day comes a frost, a killing frost.

It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.

For who so firm that cannot be seduced?

My love is thine to teach; teach it but how, And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn. Any hard lesson that may do thee good.

Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee.

He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.

And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.

...lest too light winning make the prize light.

Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.

So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.

We must be gentle now we are gentlemen.

Extremity is the trier of spirits.

The color of the king doth come and go, Between his purpose and his conscience, Like heralds 'twixt two dreadful battles set: His passion is so ripe, it needs must break.

And either victory, or else a grave.

Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope.

Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox, Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and locked up, Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.

Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn but I shall have my pocket picked?

Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest That best becomes the table.

My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the feast.

He that keeps not crust nor crum Weary of all, shall want some.

If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.

The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst.

Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair.

Love that well which thou must leave ere long.

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care.

A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.

Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light.

Tis a happy thing To be the father unto many sons.

Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!

Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.

For to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad?

You cannot call it love, for at your age the heyday in the blood is tame

Nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs, Losing both beauty and utility.

Faults that are rich are fair.

I am not in the roll of common men.

I hold him but a fool that will endanger His body for a girl that loves him not.

Unless the old adage must be verified, That beggars mounted, run their horse to death.

Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves.

Never anger made good guard for itself.