William Shakespeare Quotes

The fewer men, the greater share of honor.

We have seen better days.

Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.

Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis offer'd, Shall never find it more.

Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.

Be wary then; best safety lies in fear.

Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter!

Shall I compare thee to a summer day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate... When in eternal lines to time thou growst So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

Because it is a customary cross, As die to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers.

The rain, it raineth every day.

Thy best of rest is sleep, And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st Thy death, which is no more.

But she makes hungry Where she most satisfies.

Every true man's apparel fits your thief.

O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!

Look, how this ring encompasseth thy finger, Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart; Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love.

My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.

Murder most foul, as in the best it it; But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.

What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, So stumblest on my counsel? *Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?*

No evil lost is wailed when it is gone.

Some falls the means are happier to rise.

Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long

I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company.

It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.

Sir Andrew Ague-Cheek: I'll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o' the strangest mind i' the world; I delight in masques and revels sometimes altogether (He's an oddity in that he enjoys having fun)

Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain.

Good wine needs no bush.

The moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven.

Adieu, adieu, adieu! remember me.

Women are not In their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure the ne'er-touched vestal.

Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love.

Take you me for a sponge?

A table-full of welcome!

Foul whisp'rings are abroad.

That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quenched them hath given me fire.

What are you doing sister? / Killing swine.

Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself.

I do know when the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows.

I cannot do it without comp[u]ters.

The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate

Like one who draws the model of a house beyond his power to build it who, half through, gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost a naked subject to the weeping clouds.

As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's wife's distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.

Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.

Like madness, is the glory of this life.

Delivers in such apt and gracious words that aged ears play truant at his tales; And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.