William Shakespeare
playwright, poet, stage actor, writer, actor, dramaturge
Read on Wikipedia1564 – 1616
All Quotes by William Shakespeare
“If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.”
“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.”
“'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.”
“We are such stuffIs rounded with a sleep.”
“'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.”
“If music be the food of love, play on.”
“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me;”
“The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.”
“In time we hate that which we often fear.”
“I bear a charmed life.”
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
“Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.”
“How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!”
“Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?”
“I dote on his very absence.”
“Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.”
“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”
“Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.”
“Men's vows are women's traitors!”
“Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.”
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”
“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.”
“Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.”
“A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.”
“He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.”
“O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!”
“My pride fell with my fortunes.”
“Death is a fearful thing.”
“'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.”
“Make death proud to take us.”
“Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.”
“Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.”
“Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff;”
“And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.”
“When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”
“Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!”
“Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.”
“Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.”
“For my part, it was Greek to me.”
“Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.”
“There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.”
“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.”
“The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.”
“Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.”
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”
“As an unperfect actor on the stage,”
“O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!”
“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
“Our revels now are ended. These our actors,”
“But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time’s fool,”
“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.”
“O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!”
“Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.”
“There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st”
“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
“O, here”
“Let me not to the marriage of true minds”
“When I do count the clock that tells the time,”
“When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,”
“Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.”
“And will 'a not come again?”
“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,”
“There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.”
“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”
“Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.”
“Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.”
“A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.”
“Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now;”
“Where is Polonius?”
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”
“Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.”
“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”
“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.”
“To do a great right do a little wrong.”
“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”
“Fondling,' she saith, 'since I have hemm'd thee here”
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.”
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
“Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.”
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”
“Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;”
“What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”
“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”
“Sweets to the sweet, farewell! I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet’s wife; I thought thy bride-bed to have decked, sweet maid, And not have strewed thy grave.”
“Such as we are made of, such we be.”
“Of all the wonders that I have heard,”
“How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”
“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)”
“God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.”
“This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
“Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.”
“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)”
“Though she be but little, she is fierce.”
“There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.”
“Men shut their doors against a setting sun.”
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
“Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.”
“Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.”
“Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.”
“Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.”
“My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;”
“The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.”
“Too much of water hast thou poor Ophelia, and therefore I forbid my tears.”
“There's many a man has more hair than wit.”
“Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.”
“No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.”
“For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel:”
“How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!”
“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)”
“Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.”
“For I can raise no money by vile means.”
“Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.”
“Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”
“The wheel is come full circle.”
“Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come”
“Listen to many, speak to a few.”
“Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.”
“There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.”
“agar vaght ra talaf konid zamani fara miresad ke vaght shoma ra talaf mikonad.”
“But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.”
“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”
“No legacy is so rich as honesty.”
“Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.”
“I bear a charmed life.”
“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?”
“My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king.”
“If music be the food of love, play on.”
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”
“Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”
“To be, or not to be, that is the question.”
“So wise so young, they say, do never live long.”
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”
“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.”
“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”
“Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”
“Men must endure”
“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
“When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”
“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”
“Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.”
“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”
“Women may fall when there's no strength in men.”
“Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.”
“Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.”
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
“To do a great right do a little wrong.”
“He that is thy friend indeed,”
“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
“La vida es mi tortura y la muerte será mi descanso.”
“Love is not love which alters it when alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove: O no! It is an ever fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken; it is the star to every wandering bark whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out, even to the edge of doom.”
“Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.”
“This above all; to thine own self be true.”
“But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time’s fool,”
“Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.”
“Boldness be my friend.”
“I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.”
“This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.”
“Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.”
“Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.”
“To be, or not to be: that is the question:”
“Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.”
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
“Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.”
“If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.”
“When time is old ⟨and⟩ hath forgot itself,”
“Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?”
“But thoughts, the slave of life, and life, time’s fool,”
“Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.”
“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?”
“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”
“The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.”
“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”
“O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!”
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”
“Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.”
“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”
“Farewell, fair cruelty.”
“Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.”
“There is no darkness but ignorance.”
“I must be cruel, only to be kind.”
“Nothing can come of nothing.”
“My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.”
“But men are men; the best sometimes forget.”
“Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.”
“By that sin fell the angels.”
“As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.”
“I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.”
“But men are men; the best sometimes forget.”
“The love of heaven makes one heavenly.”
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
“Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?”
“I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.”
“Thou know'st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.”
“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.”
“Men's vows are women's traitors!”
“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.”
“Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.”
“Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.”
“If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.”
“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.”
“O know, sweet love, I always write of you,”
“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”
“My pride fell with my fortunes.”
“The evil that men do lives after them;”
“O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!”
“O my love, my wife!”
“O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!”
“Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.”
“It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.”
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
“God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.”
“Having nothing, nothing can he lose.”
“Time and the hour run through the roughest day.”
“Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.”
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be.”
“Speak low, if you speak love.”
“Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.”
“Give thy thoughts no tongue.”
“Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.”
“How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”
“The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.”
“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,”
“But that I know love is begun by time,”
“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,”
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
“O, how this spring of love resembleth”
“Let no such man be trusted.”
“But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.”
“I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!”
“O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.”
“In a false quarrel there is no true valor.”
“Full fathom five thy father lies;”
“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”
“Eyes, look your last!”
“These are the ushers of Martius: before him”
“Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.”
“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”
“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”
“What is past is prologue.”
“Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.”
“Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.”
“I say there is no darkness but ignorance.”
“But men are men; the best sometimes forget.”
“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”
“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,”
“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”
“Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.”
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be.”
“Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.”
“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.”
“We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.”
“As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.”
“Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.”
“This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
“Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.”
“I was adored once too.”
“Beauty itself doth of itself persuadeThe eyes of men without an orator.”
“O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!”
“Time's glory is to calm contending kings,To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.”
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
“God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.”
“That deep torture may be called a hell,When more is felt than one hath power to tell.”
“When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.”
“On a day — alack the day! —Playing in the wanton air”
“I will praise any man that will praise me.”
“Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care”
“Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world”
“Love is too young to know what conscience is.”
“I gyve unto my wief my second best bed with the furniture”
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
“A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.”
“Good frend for Jesus sake forbeareAnd curst be he that moves my bones”
“I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.”
“I was in love with my bed.”
“Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.”
“Women may fall when there's no strength in men.”
“There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.”
“Is she not passing fair?”
“If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.”
“How use doth breed a habit in a man!”
“Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.”
“Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.”
“Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!”
“Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.”
“She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd;She is a woman, therefore to be won.”
“I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.”
“The fox barks not, when he would steal the lamb.”
“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”
“For I can raise no money by vile means.”
“The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.”
“I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.”
“Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used; and, contrary to the king, his crown, and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.”
“How well he's read, to reason against reading!”
“The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.”
“The attempt and not the deed confounds us.”
“I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!”
“O God! methinks, it were a happy life,How many years a mortal man may live.”
“Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him,”
“O, had I but followed the arts!”
“Down, down to hell; and say I sent thee thither.”
“Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!”
“Now is the winter of our discontentMade glorious summer by this sun of York.”
“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
“An overflow of good converts to bad.”
“Off with his head!”
“Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”
“A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!”
“Jesters do oft prove prophets.”
“Thus weary of the world, away she hies,”
“What's done can't be undone.”
“What light through yonder window breaks?”
“we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end.”
“Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.”
“Men shut their doors against a setting sun.”
“What's in a name? That which we call a rose,By any other name would smell as sweet.”
“Good Madonna, why mournest thou?”
“What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.”
“O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?”
“He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.”
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
“He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.”
“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
“Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven, shall behold the night of our solemnities.”
“As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.”
“Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.”
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.”
“What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.”
“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces.”
“So foul and fair a day I have not seen.”
“All that glisters is not gold.”
“There's place and means for every man alive.”
“I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means, warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? 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?”
“It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.”
“The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.”
“But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.”
“Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.”
“A man can die but once.”
“The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.”
“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”
“They do not love that do not show their love.”
“As merry as the day is long.”
“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.”
“Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,To one thing constant never.”
“Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.”
“Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.”
“'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.”
“Beware the ides of March.”
“O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!”
“Men at some time are masters of their fates:But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”
“They say miracles are past.”
“Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once.”
“Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.”
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;The good is oft interred with their bones.”
“Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.”
“There is a tide in the affairs of menIs bound in shallows and in miseries.”
“Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care,”
“To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”
“All the world's a stage,And one man in his time plays many parts.”
“O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.”
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be;Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
“Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea”
“I am not bound to please thee with my answer.”
“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”
“Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.”
“Now is the winter of our discontent.”
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
“Lawless are they that make their wills their law.”
“What a piece of work is a man!in apprehension how like a god!”
“Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.”
“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”
“To be or not to be, that is the question.”
“Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.”
“If music be the food of love, play on.”
“There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.”
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.”
“There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.”
“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit and lost without deserving.”
“In time we hate that which we often fear.”
“Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well.”
“I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.”
“Nothing can come of nothing.”
“Of all the wonders that I have heard,”
“Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.”
“How sharper than a serpent's tooth it isTo have a thankless child!”
“Thou know'st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.”
“I am a man,More sinn'd against than sinning.”
“Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.”
“Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.”
“The love of heaven makes one heavenly.”
“The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,Burnt on the water.”
“Under the greenwood tree,”
“And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!”
“Come what come may,Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.”
“I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.”
“Is this a dagger which I see before me,The handle toward my hand?”
“Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much.”
“There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.”
“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Signifying nothing.”
“We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.”
“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?And summer's lease hath all too short a date”
“Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.”
“He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.”
“So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”
“I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.”
“Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments.”
“The valiant never taste of death but once.”
“Golden lads and girls all must,As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.”
“Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.”
“Full fathom five thy father lies;Into something rich and strange.”