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The cheekIs apter than the tongue to tell an errand. By William Shakespeare
Some there be that shadows kiss / Such have but a shadow's bliss By William Shakespeare
To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown;But where there is true friendship, there needs none. By William Shakespeare
Say a day without the ever. By William Shakespeare
Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty. By William Shakespeare
If we are mark'd to die, we are enough To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour. By William Shakespeare
Sweet love! Sweet lines! Sweet life! Here is her hand, the agent of her heart; Here is her oath for love, her honour's pawn By William Shakespeare
Mine honor is my life; both grow in one.Take honor from me, and my life is done. By William Shakespeare
Fool:"He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health,a boy's love, or a whore's oath."King Lear (III, vi, 19-21) By William Shakespeare
I have no spurTo prick the sides of my intent, but onlyVaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itselfAnd falls on the other. By William Shakespeare
Go, prick thy face and over-red thy fear,Thou lily-livered boy. By William Shakespeare
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge? By William Shakespeare
If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking and you beat love down. By William Shakespeare
If you prick us, do we not bleed? By William Shakespeare
What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? By William Shakespeare
But no perfection is so absoluteThat some inpurity doth not pollute. By William Shakespeare
Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects. By William Shakespeare
I am not merry, but I do beguile the thing I am by seeming otherwise. By William Shakespeare
So many horrid Ghosts. By William Shakespeare
Proper deformity shows not in the fiendSo horrid as in woman. By William Shakespeare
How does thy honor? Let me lick your shoe,I'll not serve him; he is not valiant.---Caliban (Act III, scene 1, lines 23-24) By William Shakespeare
Swam ashore, man, like a duck; I can swim like a duck, I'll be sworn. By William Shakespeare
There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it. By William Shakespeare
My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend, And nothing brings me all things. By William Shakespeare
There is none of my uncle's marks upon you; he taught me how to know a man in love; in which cage of rushes I am sure you are not prisoner. By William Shakespeare
Or I am mad, or else this is a dream. By William Shakespeare
The seasons change their manners, as the yearHad found some months asleep and leapt them over. By William Shakespeare
Myself will straight aboard, and to the stateThis heavy act with heavy heart relate. By William Shakespeare
There let them bide until we have devised Some never-heard-of torturing pain for them. By William Shakespeare
A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder. By William Shakespeare
If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. By William Shakespeare
( ... ) too much sadness hath congealed your blood,And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy. By William Shakespeare
Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold. By William Shakespeare
OTHELLO Not Cassio kill'd! then murder's out of tune, And sweet revenge grows harsh. DESDEMONA O, falsely, falsely murder'd! By William Shakespeare
With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls, for stony limits cannot hold love out By William Shakespeare
No stony bulwark can resist the love, and love dares what anyone can love. By William Shakespeare
One half of me is yours, the other half is yours,Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,And so all yours. By William Shakespeare
Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies. By William Shakespeare
Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath. By William Shakespeare
Love me or hate meboth are in my favor.If you love me,I'll always be in your heart,but if you hate me,I'll always be in your mind. By William Shakespeare
I thank you all and here dismiss you all, and to the love and favor of my country commit myself, my person, and the cause. By William Shakespeare
Our cageWe make a quire, as doth the prison'd bird,And sing our bondage freely. By William Shakespeare
Why, thou deboshed fish thou ... Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster? By William Shakespeare
Ingrateful man with liquorish draughts, and morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind that from it all consideration slips. By William Shakespeare
Things growing to themselves are growth's abuse:Seeds spring from seeds and beauty breedeth beauty; By William Shakespeare
Besides, our nearness to the King in loveIs near the hate of those love not the King. By William Shakespeare
Our nearness to the king in love is nearness to those who love not the king. By William Shakespeare
Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind, And makes it fearful and degenerate; Think therefore on revenge and cease to weep. By William Shakespeare
Be not lost So poorly in your thoughts. By William Shakespeare
Faster than spring-time showers comes thought on thought. By William Shakespeare
When I have plucked the rose, I cannot give it vital growth again, It needs must wither. I'll smell it on the tree. By William Shakespeare
'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay. The bay trees in our country are all wither'd. By William Shakespeare
The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy; his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure. By William Shakespeare
I have been long a sleeper; but I trustMy absence doth neglect no great designWhich by my presence might have been concluded. By William Shakespeare
Laughing Faces Do Not Mean That There Is Absence Of Sorrow! But It Means That They Have The Ability To Deal With It By William Shakespeare
Death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead! By William Shakespeare
true apothecary thy drugs art quick By William Shakespeare
Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death. By William Shakespeare
One pain is lessened by another's anguish ... Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die. By William Shakespeare
A thousand moral paintings I can showThat shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune'sMore pregnantly than words. By William Shakespeare
For I am he am born to tame you, Kate; and bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate conformable as other household Kates. By William Shakespeare
Abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate. By William Shakespeare
Good morrow, fair ones; pray you, if you know,Where in the purlieus of this forest standsA sheep-cote fenc'd about with olive trees? By William Shakespeare
How slowThis old moon wanes! she lingers my desires,Like to a stepdame, or a dowager,Long withering out a young man's revenue. By William Shakespeare
How much salt water thrown away in waste/To season love, that of it doth not taste. By William Shakespeare
The moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven. By William Shakespeare
Good my lord, be curedOf this diseased opinion, and betimes.For 'tis most dangerous. By William Shakespeare
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 By William Shakespeare
O that I were a mockery king of snowStanding before the sun of BolingbrokeTo melt myself away in water drops! By William Shakespeare
I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself king of infinite space. By William Shakespeare
For daws to peck at: I am not what I am. By William Shakespeare
And shake the yoke of inauspicious starsFrom this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! By William Shakespeare
O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From the world-wearied flesh By William Shakespeare
Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone. By William Shakespeare
With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base? By William Shakespeare
I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends By William Shakespeare
My love to love is love but to disgrace it, For I have heard it is a life in death, That laughs and weeps, and all but with a breath. By William Shakespeare
There's small choice in rotten apples. By William Shakespeare
A substitute shines brightly as a kingUntil a king be by, and then his stateEmpties itself, as dot an inland brookInto the main of waters. By William Shakespeare
Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughtsTo courtship and such fair ostents of loveAs shall conveniently become you there. By William Shakespeare
To be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour. By William Shakespeare
What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours. By William Shakespeare
Thou mak'st me merry: I am full of pleasure; let us be jocund By William Shakespeare
The Prince's fool! Ha, it may be I go under that title because I am merry. Yea, but so I am apt to do myself wrong. By William Shakespeare
Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. By William Shakespeare
As merry as the day is long. By William Shakespeare
Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on. By William Shakespeare
All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these Who worship dirty gods. By William Shakespeare
they have seem'd to be together, though absent; shook hands, as over a vast; and embrac'd as it were from the ends of opposed winds. By William Shakespeare
How many fond fools serve mad jealousy! By William Shakespeare
Yea from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records. By William Shakespeare
Plutus himself,That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine,Hath not in nature's mystery more scienceThan I have in this ring. By William Shakespeare
O! how shall summer's honey breath hold out, / Against the wrackful siege of battering days? By William Shakespeare
I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment. By William Shakespeare
The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly. By William Shakespeare
Who is Silvia What is she, That all our swains commend her Holy, fair, and wise is she. By William Shakespeare
Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lackingGod warn us!matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss. By William Shakespeare
O,come,be buried A second time within these arms (They embrace) By William Shakespeare
Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. By William Shakespeare
Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty. By William Shakespeare
For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul, If sympathy of love unite our thoughts. By William Shakespeare
I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm. By William Shakespeare
It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees. By William Shakespeare
O ill-starred wench! Pale as your smock! By William Shakespeare
All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear. By William Shakespeare
The glowworm shows the matin to be near And gins to pale his uneffectual fire. By William Shakespeare
Tell him from me that he hath done me wrong,And therefore I'll uncrown him ere't be long. By William Shakespeare
Perseverance ... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery. By William Shakespeare
Benvolio- "By my head, here come the Capulets."Mercutio- "By my heel, I care not. By William Shakespeare
Is this government of Britain's Isle, and this the royalty of Albion's King? By William Shakespeare
Nothing in his life became him like leaving it. By William Shakespeare
Such a mad marriage never was before. By William Shakespeare
Of all matches never was the like. By William Shakespeare
Now could thou and I rob the thieves and go merrily to London, it would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest forever. By William Shakespeare
In jest, there is truth. By William Shakespeare
His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it. By William Shakespeare
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear By William Shakespeare
Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation. By William Shakespeare
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. By William Shakespeare
Kent. Who's there? Fool. Marry, here's grace and a cod-piece; that's a wise man and a fool. By William Shakespeare
Life is an intresting journey where the beginning is known,way is a puzzle and the end is unknown By William Shakespeare
The Dear father Would with his daughter speak, commands her service; Are they inform'd of this? By William Shakespeare
All thy vexations Were but my trials of thy love, and thou Hast strangely stood the test; here, afore heaven, I ratify this my rich gift. By William Shakespeare
He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo. By William Shakespeare
All's well that ends well. By William Shakespeare
The hind that would be mated by the lion Must die for love. By William Shakespeare
Poor man! I know he would not be a wolf,But that he sees the Romans are but sheep:He were no lion, were not Romans hinds. By William Shakespeare
Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no careWho chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are! By William Shakespeare
O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason ! By William Shakespeare
The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deemFor that sweet odour which doth in it live. By William Shakespeare
Virtue preserv'd from fell destruction's blast,Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last. By William Shakespeare
Ten masts make not the altitudeWhich thou hast perpendicularly fell.Thy life's a miracle. By William Shakespeare
Good old grandsire ... we shall be joyful of thy company. By William Shakespeare
For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase ... By William Shakespeare
Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noontide night. By William Shakespeare
That which in mean men we entitle patienceIs pale cold cowardice in noble breasts. By William Shakespeare
where civil blood makes civil hands unclean By William Shakespeare
Our holy lives must win a new world's crown. By William Shakespeare
Unsex me here and fill me from crown to toe full of direst cruelty That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose. Macbeth By William Shakespeare
I have a bone to pick with Fate By William Shakespeare
Who can control his fate? By William Shakespeare
Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1) By William Shakespeare
Then others for breath of words respect,Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect. By William Shakespeare
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?" Macbeth By William Shakespeare
I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it. By William Shakespeare
The truest poetry is the most feigning. By William Shakespeare
Never durst a poet touch a pen to writeUntil his ink was tempered with love's sighs. By William Shakespeare
I take thee at thy word:Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;Henceforth I never will be Romeo. By William Shakespeare
To me, fair friend, you never can be old,For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still. By William Shakespeare
Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall. By William Shakespeare
There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4) By William Shakespeare
But thou art all my art, and dost advance As high as learning my rude ignorance. By William Shakespeare
RODERIGO What, ho, Brabantio! Signior Brabantio, ho! By William Shakespeare
Ho! now you strike like the blind man;t'was the boy that stole your meat,and you'll beat the post. By William Shakespeare
Good Lord, for alliance! Thus goes every one to theworld but I, and I am sunburnt; I may sit in acorner and cry heigh-ho for a husband! By William Shakespeare
But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day. By William Shakespeare
They that stand high have many blasts to shake 275 them, 276 And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces. By William Shakespeare
Well-apparel'd April on the heelOf limping Winter treads. By William Shakespeare
Strike as thou didst at Caesar; for I know / When though didst hate him worst, thou loved'st him better / Than ever thou loved'st Cassius. By William Shakespeare
Good signiors, both, when shall we laugh? Say, when? You grow exceeding strange: Must it be so? Salar. We'll make our leisures to attend on yours. By William Shakespeare
For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood. By William Shakespeare
Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. By William Shakespeare
For to be wise and love exceeds man's might. By William Shakespeare
But you are wise,Or else you love not, for to be wise and loveExceeds man's might; that dwells with gods above. By William Shakespeare
So young and so untender?""So young, my Lord, and true. By William Shakespeare
The time of life is short;To spend that shortness basely were too long. By William Shakespeare
You are an alchemist; make gold of that. By William Shakespeare
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. By William Shakespeare
They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof. By William Shakespeare
Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people. By William Shakespeare
Tears water our growth. By William Shakespeare
So may I, blind fortune leading me,Miss that which one unworthier may attain,And die with grieving. By William Shakespeare
Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered by a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marle? By William Shakespeare
Had it pleas'd heavenTo try me with affliction * * *I should have found in some place of my soulA drop of patience. By William Shakespeare
For I am born to tame you, Kate,And bring you from a wild Kate to a KateComfortable as other household Kates. By William Shakespeare
By this reckoning he is more a shrew than she. By William Shakespeare
Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair? By William Shakespeare
Come, go with us, speak fair; you may salve so,Not what is dangerous present, but the losOf what is past. By William Shakespeare
All difficulties are easy when they are known. By William Shakespeare
As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free. By William Shakespeare
Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, bear t that th' opposed may beware of thee. By William Shakespeare
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun By William Shakespeare
I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man. By William Shakespeare
That will be ere the set of sun. By William Shakespeare
Ere I could make thee open thy white hand, and clap thyself my love; then didst thou utter, I am your's for ever! By William Shakespeare
Twas a good lady, 'twas a good lady: we may pick a thousand salads ere we light on such another herb. By William Shakespeare
I kissed thee ere I killed thee. No way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss. By William Shakespeare
If a man do not erect in this age his own tomb ere he dies, he shall live no longer in monument than the bell rings and the widow weeps By William Shakespeare
God help the noble Claudio! if he have caught the Benedick, it will cost him a thousand pound ere a' be cured. By William Shakespeare
I will do anything ... ere I'll be married to a sponge. By William Shakespeare
We must love men, ere to us they will seem worthy of our love. By William Shakespeare
Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile; So ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes. By William Shakespeare
I hope to see London once ere I die. By William Shakespeare
I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep. By William Shakespeare
She will die if you love her not, And she will die ere she might make her love known By William Shakespeare
Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us? By William Shakespeare
O that a man might knowThe end of this day's business ere it come!But it sufficeth that the day will endAnd then the end is known. By William Shakespeare
Give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt. By William Shakespeare
A thousand kisses buys my heart from me;And pay them at thy leisure, one by one. By William Shakespeare
The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person,videlicet, in a love-cause. By William Shakespeare
Ay, but hearken, sir; though the chameleon Love can feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my victuals, and would fain have meat. By William Shakespeare
She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared By William Shakespeare
This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad. By William Shakespeare
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,All losses are restored and sorrows end. By William Shakespeare
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? By William Shakespeare
For their loveLlies in their purses, and whoso empties themBy so much fills their hearts with deadly hate. By William Shakespeare
Women are not In their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure the ne'er-touched vestal. By William Shakespeare
An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star! By William Shakespeare
I cannot heave my heart into my mouth. I love your majesty according to my bond; no more no less. By William Shakespeare
I had as lief have been myself alone. By William Shakespeare
Knock... and ask your heart what it doth know. By William Shakespeare
Travellers ne'er did lie,Though fools at home condemn 'em.-Antonio By William Shakespeare
And thence from Athens turn away our eyesTo seek new friends and stranger companies. By William Shakespeare
The love of wicked men converts to fear, that fear to hate, and hate turns one or both to worthy danger and deserved death. By William Shakespeare
I would not lose so great an honorAs one man more methinks would share with meFor the best hope I have. By William Shakespeare
The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try. By William Shakespeare
Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, yet love breaks through and picks them all at last. By William Shakespeare
'Tis brief, my lord ... as woman's love. By William Shakespeare
Bear with my weakness. My old brain is troubled.Be not disturbed with my infirmity. By William Shakespeare
KING HENRY VI:Would I were dead, if God's good will were so;For what is in this world but grief and woe? By William Shakespeare
Have I thought long to see this morning's face,And doth it give me such a sight as this? By William Shakespeare
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break. By William Shakespeare
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop. By William Shakespeare
Oh, devil, devil!If that the earth could teem with woman's tears,Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile.Out of my sight! By William Shakespeare
Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again. By William Shakespeare
Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue:His faults lie open to the laws; let them,Not you, correct him. By William Shakespeare
O, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable By William Shakespeare
I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture. By William Shakespeare
Kneel not to me.The pow'r that I have on you is to spare you;The malice towards you to forgive you. Live,And deal with others better. By William Shakespeare
Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English. By William Shakespeare
For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes,And hold-fast is the only dog. By William Shakespeare
Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire,Begin it with weak straws. By William Shakespeare
The benediction of these covering heavens Fall on their heads like dew, for they are worthy To inlay heaven with stars. By William Shakespeare
My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken. By William Shakespeare
But, soft! methinks I do digress too much, By William Shakespeare
I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy. By William Shakespeare
Why, headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.There's nothing situate under heaven's eyeBut hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky. By William Shakespeare
So far be distant; and good night, sweet friend: thy love ne'er alter, till they sweet life end By William Shakespeare
For where thou art, there is the world itself,With every several pleasure in the world,And where thou art not, desolation. By William Shakespeare
Not proud you have, but thankful that you have. Proud can I never be of what I hate, but thankful even for hate that is meant love. By William Shakespeare
They are in the very wrath of love, and they will go together. Clubs cannot part them By William Shakespeare
For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? By William Shakespeare
Wilt thou be daunted at a woman's sight? Aye, beauty's princely majesty is such, Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough. By William Shakespeare
Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses. By William Shakespeare
And therefore think him as a serpents egg, which, hatched, would as its kind grow mischievous, and kill him in the shell By William Shakespeare
Tis hatched and shall be so By William Shakespeare
I almost die for food, and let me have it! By William Shakespeare
By Heaven, my soul is purg'd from grudging hate; And with my hand I seal my true heart's love By William Shakespeare
There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions. By William Shakespeare
You see we do, yet see you but our handsAnd this the bleeding business they have done:Our hearts you see not; they are pitiful By William Shakespeare
Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh And sees fast-by a butcher with an axe, But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter? By William Shakespeare
Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school. By William Shakespeare
Our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, man's life is cheap as beast's. By William Shakespeare
The poorest service is repaid with thanks. By William Shakespeare
Jesters do oft prove prophets. By William Shakespeare
Since mine own doors refuse to entertain me,I'll knock elsewhere, to see if they'll disdain me By William Shakespeare
My father names me Autolycus, who being, as I am, littered under Mercury, was likewise a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. By William Shakespeare
Beauty within itself should not be wasted. By William Shakespeare
Britain is A world by itself, and we will nothing pay For wearing our own noses. By William Shakespeare
The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose, In piteous chase. By William Shakespeare
The leopard does not change his spots. By William Shakespeare
But what's so blessed-fair that fears no blot? Thou mayst be false, and yet I know it not. By William Shakespeare
I am ashes where I once was fire, And the bard in my bosom is dead; What I loved I now merely admire, And my heart is as grey as my head. By William Shakespeare
What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyesWould, with themselves, shut up my thoughts ... By William Shakespeare
Demand me nothing: what you know, you know. By William Shakespeare
Look, what a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on his back. By William Shakespeare
Woah is me to have seen what i seen see what i see By William Shakespeare
TITANIA My Oberon! what visions have I seen! Methought I was enamour'd of an ass. By William Shakespeare
O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do. By William Shakespeare
What a piece of work is a man By William Shakespeare
What do you read, my lord?""Words, words, words. By William Shakespeare
Romeo: I dreamt a dream tonight.Mercutio: And so did I.Romeo: Well, what was yours?Mercutio: That dreamers often lie. By William Shakespeare
What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit! By William Shakespeare
What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,That he should weep for her? By William Shakespeare
He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stol'n,Let him not know't and he's not robb'd at all. By William Shakespeare
Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient foolArt thou, to break into this woman's mood,Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own! By William Shakespeare
Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all; What hast thou then more than thou hadst before? By William Shakespeare
What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind. By William Shakespeare
Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursuesPursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues. By William Shakespeare
Marry, sir, she's the kitchen wench and all grease; and I know not what use to put her to but to make a lamp of her and run from her by her own light. By William Shakespeare
Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be. By William Shakespeare
good plays prove the better by the help of good epilogues. What By William Shakespeare
Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be? By William Shakespeare
But come what may, I do adore thee so That danger shall seem sport, and I will go! By William Shakespeare
Come what come may,Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. By William Shakespeare
Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick menWhen for so slight and frivolous a causeSuch factious emulations shall arise! By William Shakespeare
So curses all Eve's daughters of what complexion soever. By William Shakespeare
I have told you what I have seen and heard - but faintly, nothing like the image and horror of it. By William Shakespeare
What we are is not all that we may become. By William Shakespeare
Love is too young to know what coinscience is. By William Shakespeare
Antonio: "What a blow was there given!"Sebastian: "An it had not fallen flatlong. By William Shakespeare
Why what a fool was I to this drunken monster for a God. - Caliban By William Shakespeare
What the great ones do, the less will prattle of By William Shakespeare
ROMEO: Good morrow to you both. What counterfeitdid I give you?MERCUTIO: The slip, sir, the slip; can you not conceive? By William Shakespeare
Being of no power to make his wishes good: His promises fly so beyond his state That what he speaks is all in debt; he owes For every word. By William Shakespeare
The devil knew what he did when he made men politic; he crossed himself by it. By William Shakespeare
Oh what man may hide inside, tho angel on the outward side. By William Shakespeare
What did thy song bode, lady? By William Shakespeare
If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide,By self-example mayst thou be denied. By William Shakespeare
What is the course and drift of your compact? By William Shakespeare
...what care I for words? Yet words do wellWhen he that speaks them pleases those that hear. By William Shakespeare
Things in motion sooner catch the eye than what not stirs. By William Shakespeare
Read o'er this And after, this, and then to breakfast with What appetite you have. By William Shakespeare
Men should be what they seem; Or those that be not, would they might seem none!. By William Shakespeare
What bloody man is that? He can report,As seemeth by his plight, of the revoltThe newest state. By William Shakespeare
Take but degree away, untune that string, and hark, what discord follows! By William Shakespeare
For to define true madness,What is't but to be nothing else but mad? By William Shakespeare
What a fool honesty is. By William Shakespeare
Why, what's the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness? By William Shakespeare
My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel;I know not where I am nor what I do. By William Shakespeare
What thing, in honor, had my father lost,That need to be revived and breathed in me? By William Shakespeare
Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear. By William Shakespeare
What is done cannot be now amended. By William Shakespeare
When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will By William Shakespeare
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! By William Shakespeare
What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? By William Shakespeare
Trust not your daughter's minds By what you see them act. By William Shakespeare
Call me what instrume you will,though you can fret me,yet you cannot play upon me. By William Shakespeare
O, what damned minutes tells he o'erWho dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet fondly loves! By William Shakespeare
What is more miserable than discontent? By William Shakespeare
What should such fellows as I do crawling between heaven and earth? By William Shakespeare
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. By William Shakespeare
What's making you sad and your hours so long?- Not having the thing that makes them short. By William Shakespeare
What showers arise, blown with the windy tempest of my heart By William Shakespeare
Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow By William Shakespeare
Life... is a paradise to what we fear of death. By William Shakespeare
Say, what abridgement have you for this evening?What masque, what music? How shall we beguileThe lazy time if not with some delight? By William Shakespeare
Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave. By William Shakespeare
What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind. By William Shakespeare
What must be shall be. By William Shakespeare
What's done cannot be undone.To bed, to bed, to bed. By William Shakespeare
What soilders whey-face? The English for so please you. Take thy face hence. By William Shakespeare
O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart.-Helena By William Shakespeare
What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure. By William Shakespeare
Sir Toby Belch: "Dost think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?" (Twelfth Night) By William Shakespeare
Thy food is suchAs hath been belch'd on by infected lungs. By William Shakespeare
They are all but stomachs, and we all but food. To eat us hungerly, and when they are full, They belch us.-Emilia By William Shakespeare
Gods, gods! 'tis strange that from their cold'st neglectMy love should kindle to inflamed respect. By William Shakespeare
tis strange that from their cold'st neglect My love should kindle to inflam'd respect. By William Shakespeare
O the world is but a word; were it all yours to give it in a breath, how quickly were it gone! By William Shakespeare
The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly. By William Shakespeare
If virtue no delighted beauty lack, Your son-in-law is far more fair than black. By William Shakespeare
And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts. By William Shakespeare
Afore me! It is so very late,That we may call it early by and by. By William Shakespeare
Wert thou as farAs that vast shore washed with the farthest sea,I would adventure for such merchandise. By William Shakespeare
I bear a charmed life, which must not yieldTo one of woman born. By William Shakespeare
Society is no comfort, to one not sociable. By William Shakespeare
Good morning to you, fair and gracious daughter. By William Shakespeare
Love yourself; and in that love not unconsidered leave your honor. By William Shakespeare
Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother. By William Shakespeare
Hardness ever of hardness is mother. By William Shakespeare
The venom clamours of a jealous womanPoisons more deadly than a mad dog's tooth. By William Shakespeare
Refrain tonight And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence: the next more easy; For use alomost can change the stamp of nature By William Shakespeare
In springtime, the only pretty ring timeBirds sing, hey dingA-ding, a-dingSweet lovers love the spring - By William Shakespeare
Of all the fair resort of gentlemenThat every day with parle encounter me,In thy opinion which is worthiest love? By William Shakespeare
Comets importing change of times and states,Brandish your crystal tresses in the skyAnd with them scourge the bad revolting stars. By William Shakespeare
I will deny thee nothing: Whereon, I do beseech thee, grant me this, To leave me but a little to myself. By William Shakespeare
Nay, I beseech you, sir, be not out with me: yet,if you be out, sir, I can mend you. By William Shakespeare
I beseech you,Wrest once the law to your authority:To do a great right, do a little wrong. By William Shakespeare
I humbly do beseech of your pardon, For too much loving you By William Shakespeare
Old fashions please me best; I am not so niceTo change true rules for odd inventions. By William Shakespeare
The whirligig of time brings in his revenges. By William Shakespeare
For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl. By William Shakespeare
Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir.My daughter he hath wedded. I will die,And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death's. By William Shakespeare
No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door, but 'tis enough. By William Shakespeare
Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents. By William Shakespeare
Who can be wise, amazed, temp'rate, and furious,Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man. By William Shakespeare
Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate,Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving, By William Shakespeare
Mother, you have my father much offended. By William Shakespeare
Give me some music! Now, good morrow, friends! By William Shakespeare
You have but mistook me all the while ... I live by bread like you, taste grief, feel want, need friends. Conditioned thus how can you call me king? By William Shakespeare
This world to me is like a lasting storm,Whirring me from my friends. By William Shakespeare
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night. By William Shakespeare
To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods. By William Shakespeare
In God's name cheerly on, courageous friends,To reap the harvest of perpetual peaceBy this one bloody trial of sharp war. By William Shakespeare
My friends were poor, but honest. By William Shakespeare
Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends. By William Shakespeare
There is flattery in friendship. By William Shakespeare
And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. By William Shakespeare
The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends. By William Shakespeare
Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth. - Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts! By William Shakespeare
A friend should bear his friends infirmities. By William Shakespeare
He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends. By William Shakespeare
If thou wilt lend this money, lend it notAs to thy friends; for when did friendship takeA breed for barren metal of his friend? By William Shakespeare
Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. By William Shakespeare
Thy friendship makes us fresh. By William Shakespeare
We are advertis'd by our loving friends. By William Shakespeare
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. By William Shakespeare
Do as adversaries do in law, Strive mightily but eat and drink as friends. Taming By William Shakespeare
The presence of a king engenders loveAmongst his subjects, and his royal friends. By William Shakespeare
No, good my lord; let's fight with gentle words Till time lend friends, and friends their helpful swords. By William Shakespeare
New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems. By William Shakespeare
My friends were poor, but honest, so's my love. By William Shakespeare
Keep thy friendUnder thy own life's key. By William Shakespeare
I am wealthy in my friends. By William Shakespeare
The Friends Thou HastAnd Their Adoption TriedGrapple Them To Thy SoulWith Hooks Of Steel By William Shakespeare
That which I would discoverThe law of friendship bids me to conceal. By William Shakespeare
Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them. By William Shakespeare
When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again. By William Shakespeare
A stirring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant. By William Shakespeare
There is no more mercy in him than there is milk in a male tiger. By William Shakespeare
If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father. By William Shakespeare
When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that. By William Shakespeare
We all remember the fool who, almost alone, was true to Lear, but, then, of course, he was a fool. By William Shakespeare
Hopeless and helpless doth AEgeon wend,But to procrastinate his lifeless end. By William Shakespeare
We cannot be here and there too. Cheerly, boys; bebrisk awhile, and the longer liver take all. By William Shakespeare
Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state,My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel. By William Shakespeare
The pow'r I have on you is to spare you / The malice towards you, to forgive you. Posthumus By William Shakespeare
To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus... By William Shakespeare
I 'gin to be aweary of the sun,And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone. By William Shakespeare
A good lenten answer! I can tell thee where that saying was born, of 'I fear no colours. By William Shakespeare
Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion. By William Shakespeare
Every cloud engenders not a storm. By William Shakespeare
Watch tonight, pray tomorrow. Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you! By William Shakespeare
We will draw the curtain and show you the picture. By William Shakespeare
A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother. By William Shakespeare
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself. By William Shakespeare
Mend your speech a little, Lest you may mar your fortunes. By William Shakespeare
A girl takes too much time to love and a few seconds to hate. but a boy takes a few seconds to love and too much time to hate. By William Shakespeare
God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. By William Shakespeare
Oh, God! I have an ill-divining soul! By William Shakespeare
Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves. By William Shakespeare
Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh. By William Shakespeare
Macbeth to Witches: What are these So wither'd and so wild in their attire, That look not like th' inhabitants o' th' earth, And yet are on 't? By William Shakespeare
O, were mine eyeballs into bullets turn'd, That I in rage might shoot them at your faces! By William Shakespeare
O thoughts of men accurs'd! / Past and to come seem best; things present, worst By William Shakespeare
Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my attendance to. By William Shakespeare
Words spoken can not be recalled so think twice before you speak. By William Shakespeare
O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Creating awe and fear in other men? By William Shakespeare
You are my true and honourable wife;As dear to me as the ruddy dropsThat visit my sad heart. By William Shakespeare
But Montague is bound as well as I,In penalty alike; and 'tis not hard, I think,For men so old as we to keep the peace. By William Shakespeare
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready standTo smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. By William Shakespeare
O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! By William Shakespeare
Of all mad matches never was the likeBeing mad herself, she's madly mated. By William Shakespeare
I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently. By William Shakespeare
Sblood, but you will not hear me: - If ever I did dream of such a matter, Abhor me. By William Shakespeare
I would give all of my fame for a pot of ale and safety. By William Shakespeare
This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. By William Shakespeare
If music be the food of love, play on. 1 Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, 2 The appetite may sicken and so die. 3 That strain again! It By William Shakespeare
Music, moody foodOf us that trade in love. By William Shakespeare
If music be the food of love, play on. By William Shakespeare
If music is the food of love, play on. By William Shakespeare
Time is a very bankrout and owes more than he's worth to season. By William Shakespeare
I am gone, though I am here. There is no love in you. Nay, I pray you let me go. By William Shakespeare
And thus I clothe my naked villainyWith odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ;And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. By William Shakespeare
A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty. By William Shakespeare
They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame. By William Shakespeare
Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden. By William Shakespeare
Kissing with golden face the meadows green,Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy By William Shakespeare
The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb. By William Shakespeare
One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sunNe'er saw her match since first the world begun. By William Shakespeare
This is as strange a maze as e'er men trod:And there is in this business more than nature Was ever conduct of By William Shakespeare
Viola to Duke Orsino: 'I'll do my best To woo your lady.'[Aside.] 'Yet, a barful strife! Whoe'er I woo, myself would be his wife. By William Shakespeare
The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. - Romeo By William Shakespeare
I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation. By William Shakespeare
I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thyeyes - and moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle's. By William Shakespeare
Merely, thou art death's fool,For him thou labor'st by thy flight to shun,And yet run'st toward him still. By William Shakespeare
Thy tongue Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd, Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower, With ravishing division, to her lute. By William Shakespeare
I'll lock thy heaven from thee. O, that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! By William Shakespeare
Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead.Thy match was mortal to him, and pure griefShore his old thread in twain. By William Shakespeare
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. By William Shakespeare
Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend. By William Shakespeare
O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note,to drown me in thy sister's flood of tears. By William Shakespeare
No metal canno, not the hangman's axebear half the keenness of thy sharp envy. By William Shakespeare
There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,Doing more murder in this loathsome world,Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. By William Shakespeare
Yield not thy neck To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance. By William Shakespeare
Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's and truth's. By William Shakespeare
Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator. By William Shakespeare
Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me the spirit. By William Shakespeare
Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age? By William Shakespeare
Gloucester, we have done deeds of charity, made peace of enmity, fair love of hate, between these swelling wrong-incensed peers. By William Shakespeare
This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o-erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire. By William Shakespeare
But I am constant as the Northern Star,Of whose true fixed and resting qualityThere is no fellow in the firmament. By William Shakespeare
I'll say she looks as clear as morning roses newly washed with dew. By William Shakespeare
Famous Quotes on: Honesty, Wisdom, Thomas JeffersonRich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in a foul oyster. By William Shakespeare
When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again? By William Shakespeare
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage. By William Shakespeare
Now join hands, and with your hands your hearts. By William Shakespeare
Then happy I that love and am beloved, where I may not remove nor be removed. By William Shakespeare
On a day - alack the day! -Love, whose month is ever May,Spied a blossom passing fairPlaying in the wanton air By William Shakespeare
The chameleon Love can feed on the air By William Shakespeare
Life is a story told by an idiot, full of noise and emotion, but without any meaning. [A By William Shakespeare
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head. By William Shakespeare
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil. By William Shakespeare
LEONTES Out! A mankind witch! Hence with her, out o' door: A most intelligencing bawd! By William Shakespeare
I do feel it gone, But know not how it went By William Shakespeare
If I were to kiss you then go to hell, I would. So then I can brag with the devils I saw heaven without ever entering it. By William Shakespeare
It is the very error of the moon; She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, And makes men mad. By William Shakespeare
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,Who is already sick and pale with griefThat thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . . By William Shakespeare
Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation. By William Shakespeare
Art made tongue-tied by authority. By William Shakespeare
To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature. By William Shakespeare
Yet this my comfort: when your words are done,My woes end likewise with the evening sun. By William Shakespeare
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. By William Shakespeare
Lawn as white as driven snow; Cyprus black as e'er was crow; Gloves as sweet as damask roses. By William Shakespeare
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks ... By William Shakespeare
Their lips were four red roses on a stalk. By William Shakespeare
Happy is your grace, That can translate the stubbornness of fortuneInto so quiet and so sweet a style By William Shakespeare
Some falls the means are happier to rise. By William Shakespeare
All that impedes thee from the golden round, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem (25) To have thee crowned withal. By William Shakespeare
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. By William Shakespeare
O time, thou must untangle this, not I.It is too hard a knot for me t'untie. By William Shakespeare
Cleopatra: Give me to drink Mandragora.Charmian: Why, madam? Cleopatra: That I might sleep out this great gap of time my Antony is away. By William Shakespeare
Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare, To digg the dust encloased heare! Blest be the man that spares thes stones, And curst be he that moves my bones. By William Shakespeare
Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace. By William Shakespeare
Small herbs have grace, great weeds to grow apace. By William Shakespeare
I think the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence, and discourse grow commendable in none only but parrots. By William Shakespeare
Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance. By William Shakespeare
We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name. By William Shakespeare
Patch up thine old body for heaven. By William Shakespeare
But here must end the story of my life,And happy were I in my timely deathCould all my travels warrant me they live. By William Shakespeare
Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. This above all: to thine own self be true. No legacy is so rich as honesty. Brevity is the soul of wit By William Shakespeare
Be as thou wast wont to be. By William Shakespeare
That England, that was wont to conquer others,Hath made a shameful conquest of itself. By William Shakespeare