William Shakespeare Quotes

To you your father should be as a god.

Thou lump of foul deformity!

Ay, Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy.

Art made tongue-tied by authority.

Be just, and fear not.

We must love men, ere to us they will seem worthy of our love.

Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so; And, being done, thus Wall away doth go.

Vice repeated is like the wandering wind, blows dust in others' eyes to spread itself.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

If the skin were parchment and the blows you gave were ink, Your own handwriting would tell you what I think.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage.

He that dies this year is quit for the next.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

...lest too light winning make the prize light.

You have witchcraft in your lips

This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed.

Wine loved I deeply, dice dearly.

Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

Gently to hear, kindly to judge.

So many horrid Ghosts.

Quote: What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?

These blessed candles of the night.

Thou hast not half that power to do me harm As I have to be hurt.

Taste your legs, sire: put them into motion.

Tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus.

What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.

He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.

Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

More can I bear than you dare execute.

To saucy doubts and fears.

Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.

To England will I steal, and there I'll steal.

My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors.

It warms the very sickness in my heart, That I shall live and tell him to his teeth, "Thus diddest thou;"

I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom.

That in the captains but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!

IAGO: She that was ever fair and never proud, Had tongue at will and yet was never loud, Never lack'd gold and yet went never gay, Fled from her wish and yet said 'Now I may,' She that being anger'd, her revenge being nigh, Bade her wrong stay and her displeasure fly, She that in wisdom never was so frail To change the cod's head for the salmon's tail; She that could think and ne'er disclose her mind, See suitors following and not look behind, She was a wight, if ever such wight were,-- DESDEMONA: To do what? IAGO: To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.

See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.

Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my attendance to.

Do all men kill the things they do not love ............ The quality of mercy is not strain'd It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest It blesseth him that gives and him that takes

Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands. Curtsied when you have and kissed The wild waves whist, Foot is featly here and there; And, sweet sprites, the burden bear. Ariel's song, scene II, Act I