William Shakespeare Quotes

My friends were poor, but honest, so's my love.

The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. - Romeo

Best men oft are moulded out of faults.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

Love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. *Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow.*

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.

O, let me kiss that hand! KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.

I love thee; none but thee, and thou deservest it

Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies.

And makes me poor indeed.

Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.

Love reasons without reason.

He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.

There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

Come, Lady, die to live.

Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.

Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this.

Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!

She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.

I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster

There is no sure foundation set on blood, No certain life achieved by others' death.

As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor.

Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye.

For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar; and't shall go hard But I will delve one yard below their mines And blow them at the moon.

Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee.

For some must watch, while some must sleep So runs the world away

Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death.

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade the eyes of men without an orator.

Good morrow, 'tis Saint Valentine's Day, All in the morn betime, And I a maid at your window, To be your valentine.

Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond.

What Time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.

Then love-devouring Death do what he dare.

We came into the world like brother and brother, And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.

A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not.

Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.

Every why has a wherefore.

Let them obey that knows not how to rule.

The fringed curtains of thine eye advance, And say what thou seest yond.

So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men.

I'll teach you differences.

O wretched state! o bosom black as death!

For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

The wildest hath not such a heart as you. Run when you will, the story shall be changed: Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase; The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed, When cowardice pursues and valour flies.

Dreams are the children of idled minds.