William Shakespeare Quotes

For such things as you, I can scarce think there's any, ye're so slight.

There is no more mercy in him than there is milk in a male tiger.

You had measured how long a fool you were upon the ground.

Thou hast the most unsavoury similes.

There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee.

O heresy in fair, fit for these days, A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.

Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye.

It were a grief so brief to part with thee. Farewell.

By innocence I swear, and by my youth, I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth, And that no woman has, nor never none Shall mistress be of it save I alone.

Adieu, adieu, adieu! remember me.

If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide, By self-example mayst thou be denied.

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)

I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table." Macbeth

These times of woe afford no time to woo.

Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.

A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as the schoolboy on his way to school. (Act 2, scene 2)

Then others for breath of words respect, Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect.

Thou art a very ragged Wart.

I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?

For some must watch, while some must sleep So runs the world away

So. Lie there, my art.

And too soon Marred are those so early Made.

For to be wise and love exceeds man's might.

Men should be what they seem.

All dark and comfortless.

Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.

Oh, I am fortune's fool!

In thy foul throat thou liest.

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason.

As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.

The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.

They lie deadly that tell you have good faces.

If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.

But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.

Pleasure and revenge have ears more deaf than adders to the voice of any true decision.

Men from children nothing differ.

Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.

Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.

Nice customs curtsy to great kings.

The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to.

What are you doing sister? / Killing swine.

There's villainous news abroad.

Time is the king of men.

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

I was adored once too.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

My friends were poor, but honest, so's my love.

Good morning to you, fair and gracious daughter.