Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest.
William ShakespeareMacduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.
William ShakespeareEye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
William ShakespeareBenvolio- "By my head, here come the Capulets." Mercutio- "By my heel, I care not.
William ShakespeareI can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
William ShakespeareLook, what envious streaks do lace the severing clouds in yonder east! Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tip-toe on the misty mountain-tops.
William ShakespeareThere live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.
William ShakespeareO, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note, to drown me in thy sister’s flood of tears.
William ShakespeareThese earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.
William ShakespeareFeed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief
William ShakespeareWell, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.
William ShakespeareThe violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy.
William ShakespeareNow, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
William ShakespeareIn springtime, the only pretty ring time Birds sing, hey ding A-ding, a-ding Sweet lovers love the spring—
William ShakespeareLook on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight; which therein works a miracle in Nature, making them lightest that wear most of it: so are those crisped snaky golden locks which make such wanton gambols with the wind upon supposed fairness, often known to be the dowry of a second head, the skull that bred them in the sepulchre.
William ShakespeareMy only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.
William ShakespeareHow wayward is this foolish love that, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse and presently, all humble, kiss the rod.
William ShakespeareMy noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education. My life and education both do learn me How to respect you. You are the lord of my duty, I am hitherto your daughter. But here’s my husband, And so much duty as my mother showed To you, preferring you before her father, So much I challenge that I may profess Due to the Moor my lord.
William ShakespeareCostly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
William ShakespeareI was too young that time to value her, But now I know her. If she be a traitor, Why, so am I. We still have slept together, Rose at an instant, learned, played, eat together, And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans, Still we went coupled and inseparable.
William ShakespeareWomen are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.
William ShakespeareThe weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.
William Shakespeare