William Shakespeare Quotes

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!

What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.

Master, go on, and I will follow thee To the last gasp with truth and loyalty.

I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist.

Were't not for laughing, I should pity him.

This music crept by me upon the waters, Allaying both their fury and my passion With its sweet air: thence I have follow’d it.

Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I will depart unkissed.

JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name? ORLANDO: Yes, just. JAQUES: I do not like her name. ORLANDO: There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened.

The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water.

Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.

How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care, Their bones with industry.

Who is so firm that can't be seduced?

For many men that stumble at the threshold are well foretold that danger lurks within.

I will go wash; And when my face is fair, you shall perceive Whether I blush or no.

I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.

A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame, And never going aright, being a watch, But being watched that it may still go right!

Do all men kill the things they do not love?

To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st But keep that count'nance still.

Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.

Ships are but boards, sailors but men.

Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are!

Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.

Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste.

A maiden hath no tongue--but thought.

England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune.

When once our grace we have forgot, Nothing goes right.

I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong.

Tis not a year or two shows us a man: They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full They belch us.

I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when they are in great danger I recover them.

Be collected. No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart There's no harm done.

Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both.

Take it in what sense thou wilt.

Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.

Truly thou art damned, like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side.

Romeo: I dreamt a dream tonight. Mercutio: And so did I. Romeo: Well, what was yours? Mercutio: That dreamers often lie. Romeo: In bed asleep while they do dream things true.

Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of Our human generation you shall find.

At once, good night- Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once.

When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.

By Heaven, I love thee better than myself

Is it possible that love should of a sudden take such a hold?

There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the observer doth thy history, fully unfold.

A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them.

Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.

The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment.

You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave.

Away! Thou'rt poison to my blood.

To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end.

Take all the swift advantage of the hours.

He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks.