Tis safter to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.
William ShakespeareSend danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.
William ShakespeareThou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.
William ShakespeareFull many a glorious morn I have seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy.
William ShakespeareA woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.
William ShakespeareI am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.(IAGO,ActI,SceneI)
William ShakespeareObey thy parents, keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud array. * * * Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy pen from lenders' books.
William ShakespeareA great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching!
William ShakespeareA lean cheek; which you have not: a blue eye, and sunken; which you have not: an unquestionable spirit; which you have not: a beard neglected; which you have not: — but I pardon you for that; for, simply, your having1 in beard is a younger brother's revenue: — Then your hose should be ungarter'd, your bonnet unhanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and every thing about you demonstrating a careless desolation.
William ShakespeareLove looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
William ShakespeareNow, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways?
William ShakespeareMan, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured.
William ShakespeareSpeak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.
William ShakespeareTruly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
William ShakespeareBut yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live.
William ShakespeareAgainst my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner. BENEDICK Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains. BEATRICE I took no more pains for those thanks than you take pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would not have come. BENEDICK You take pleasure then in the message? BEATRICE Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's point ... You have no stomach, signior: fare you well. Exit BENEDICK Ha! 'Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner;' there's a double meaning in that... (Much Ado About Nothing)
William ShakespeareMen's eyes were made to look, and let them gaze. I will not budge for no man's pleasure.
William ShakespeareMake the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole; stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney.
William ShakespeareBut I am constant as the Northern Star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament.
William ShakespeareInfirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures: ‘tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil
William ShakespeareI can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me: but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.
William ShakespeareWith caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.
William Shakespeare