These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume
William ShakespeareWoe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.
William ShakespeareI can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
William ShakespeareBeggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny.
William ShakespeareThis is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star.
William Shakespeare