William Shakespeare Quotes
Look on beauty, And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight, Which therein works a miracle in nature, Making them lightest that wear most of it.
Bear with my weakness. My old brain is troubled. Be not disturbed with my infirmity.
Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan For that deep wound it gives my friend and me; Is't not enough to torture me alone, But slave to slavery my sweet'st friend must be?
Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.
In love the heavens themselves do guide the state; Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate.
Eternity was in our lips and eyes, Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor But was a race of heaven.
Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce!
In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long ago betid
Men's eyes were made to look, and let them gaze. I will not budge for no man's pleasure.
By how much unexpected, by so much We must awake endeavour for defence; For courage mounteth with occasion.
With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.
Love that we cannot have is the one that lasts the longest,hurts the deepest,but feels the strongest
This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy, this Senior Junior, giant dwarf...Cupid.
See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.
O, a kiss Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge! Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss I carried from thee, dear, and my true lip Hath virgined it e'er since.
'Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.
Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench; I love her ten times more than e'er I did: O, how I long to have some chat with her!
Advance our standards, set upon our foes; Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George, Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons!
But pearls are fair; and the old saying is: Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.
Two loves I have, of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still: The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman coloured ill.
O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note, to drown me in thy sister’s flood of tears.
Glendower: I can call the spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come, when you do call for them?
O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours with Time's deformed hand Have written strange defeatures in my face. But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice?
Discharge my followers; let them hence away, From Richard's night to Bolingbrooke's fair day.
Minutes, hours, days, months, and years, Pass'd over to the end they were created, Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. Ah, what a life were this!
That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.
What's the news? None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest, Then is doomsday near.
Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice, He offers in another's enterprise; But more in Troilus thousand-fold I see Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be, Yet hold I off.
