William Shakespeare Quotes

Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he. We are two lions litter’d in one day, and I the elder and more terrible.

Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life.

The pow'r that I have on you is to spare you; The malice towards you to forgive you.

And will he not come again? And will he not come again? No, no, he is dead. Go to thy deathbed. He never will come again.

You cram these words into mine ears against The stomach of my sense.

When the mind's free, The Body's delicate.

Why what a fool was I to this drunken monster for a God. - Caliban

Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.

The summer's flower is to the summer sweet Though to itself it only live and die

I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me: but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.

Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules, but beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. I was a coward on instinct.

O, she's warm! If this be magic, let it be an art Lawful as eating.

Ten kisses short as one, one long as twenty.

It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance

Plain and not honest is too harsh a style.

Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?

Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way.

There's beggary in love that can be reckoned

What is light, if Sylvia be not seen? What is joy if Sylvia be not by?

She will die if you love her not, And she will die ere she might make her love known

Love will not be spurred to what it loathes

They are in the very wrath of love, and they will go together. Clubs cannot part them

Is this the generation of love? Hot blood, hot thoughts and hot deeds? Why, they are vipers. Is love a generation of vipers?

Lovers ever run before the clock

I'll make my heaven in a lady's lap

Kiss me, Kate, we shall be married o'Sunday

Avaunt, you cullions!

They are hare-brain'd slaves.

Take her away; for she hath lived too long, To fill the world with vicious qualities.

Britain is A world by itself, and we will nothing pay For wearing our own noses.

Let the end try the man.

I hold it cowardice To rest mistrustful where a noble heart Hath pawned an open hand in sign of love.

By-and-by is easily said.

Grief best is pleased with grief's society.

Though it be honest, it is never good to bring bad news.

What's done is done. The joy is in the doing.

Pride went before, ambition follows him.

I have shot mine arrow o'er the house And hurt my brother.

I have more care to stay than will to go.

Obey thy parents, keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud array. * * * Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy pen from lenders' books.

Besides, they are our outward consciences, And preachers to us all, admonishing That we should drew us fairly for our end.

But since the affairs of men rests still incertain, Let's reason with the worst that may befall.

Sin, that amends, is but patched with virtue.

You have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.

There is nothing but roguery to be found in villainous men.

I profess not talking: only this, Let each man do his best.

Hold, or cut bowstrings.

We must not stint Our necessary actions in the fear To cope malicious censurers, which ever, As rav'nous fishes, do a vessel follow That is new-trimmed, but benefit no further Than vainly longing.

I can counterfeit the deep tragedian; Speak and look back, and pry on every side, Tremble and start, at wagging of a straw, Intending deep suspicion.

Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them.