William Shakespeare Quotes

Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.

My heart is ever at your service.

Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will.

For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

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?

When truth kills truth, O devilish holy fray!

I say, without characters, fame lives long.

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.

woah is me to have seen what i seen see what i see

A light wife doth make a heavy husband.

Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained; and in him that escapes, it were no sin to think that, making God so free an offer, He let him outlive the day to see His greatness and to teach others how they should prepare.

Nothing 'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue.

I have a kind soul that would give you thanks. And knows not how to do it but with tears.

Set your heart at rest. The fairyland buys not the child of me.

Are you up to your destiny?

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

The nature of bad news affects the teller.

Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.

Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.

Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.

She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them

Honesty is not the best policy - merely the safest

Give me my sin again.

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

Thou weedy elf-skinned canker-blossom!

Before, I loved thee as a brother, John, But now, I do respect thee as my soul.

He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need: If thou sorrow, he will weep; If thou wake, he cannot sleep: Thus of every grief in heart He with thee does bear a part. These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe.

No visor does become black villainy so well as soft and tender flattery.

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

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

He is not worthy of the honey-comb, that shuns the hives because the bees have stings.

Done to death by slanderous tongue

I'll look to like; if looking, liking move.

Suspicion shall be all stuck full of eyes.

Talkers are no good doers.

You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!

We are oft to blame in this, - 'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage, and pios action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful?

For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.

O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

One sin another doth provoke.