William Shakespeare Quotes

Love does not see with the eyes, but with the soul.

One half of me is yours, the other half is yours, Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours.

Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well.

Will you walk out of the air, my lord? HAMLET Into my grave.

Allow not nature more than nature needs.

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.

Away! Thou'rt poison to my blood.

Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.

Love denied blights the soul we owe to God.

To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.

We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed.

When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation.

I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O list!

This is the very ecstasy of love.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But like a thrifty goddess she determines Herself the glory of a creditor,Both thanks and use.

Watch tonight, pray tomorrow. Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you!

And ruin`d love when it is built anew, grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater

In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.

Sound trumpets! Let our bloody colours wave! And either victory, or else a grave.

Men should be what they seem; Or those that be not, would they might seem none!.

All thy vexations Were but my trials of thy love, and thou Hast strangely stood the test; here, afore heaven, I ratify this my rich gift.

Now entertain conjecture of a time When creeping murmur and the poring dark Fills the wide vessel of the universe.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

All that glitters is not gold.

By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place In my heart's love hath no man than yourself. Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord.

I have heard of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on others, to taste their valor.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.

The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle that's curded by the frost from purest snow.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

Put money in thy purse.

To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still.

Lay on, McDuff, and be damned he who first cries, 'Hold, enough!

The course of true love never did run smooth.

A peevish self-willed harlotry it is. *She’s a stubborn little brat.*

O, had I but followed the arts!

Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.

Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.

Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if.

I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo to in festival terms.

You must confine yourself within the modest limits of order.

Educated men are so impressive.

The setting sun, and the music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in rememberance more than long things past.

for Mercutio's soul Is but a little way above our heads, Staying for thine to keep him company: Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him.

Well, honor is the subject of my story.

For now they kill me with a living death.

Give me mine angle, we'll to th' river: there, My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finned fishes. My bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws; and as I draw them up, I'll think them every one an Antony, And say, 'Ah, ha! are caught!'