William Shakespeare Quotes

Men judge by the complexion of the sky The state and inclination of the day.

LEONATO Neighbours, you are tedious. DOGBERRY It pleases your worship to say so, but we are the poor duke's officers; but truly, for mine own part, if I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all of your worship.

And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire, The chariest maid is prodigal enough If she unmasks her beauty to the moon.

In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

I was born free as Caesar; so were you

Let us be Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon

Wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort.

The crown o' the earth doth melt. My lord! O, wither'd is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fall'n: young boys and girls Are level now with men; the odds is gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon.

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.

wert thou as far As that vast shore washed with the farthest sea, I would adventure for such merchandise.

Patch up thine old body for heaven.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?

Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning of your words' deceit.

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.

I go, I go, look how I go, swifter than an arrow from a bow

it is not enough to speak, but to speak truee

The hideous god of war.

'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

None can cure their harms by wailing them.

Believe then, if you please, that I can do strange things. [Act 5, Scene 2]

I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.

Conscience is a blushing, shamefaced spirit than mutinies in a man's bosom; it fills one full of obstacles.

Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.

And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Words spoken can not be recalled so think twice before you speak.

What's the newest grief? Each minute tunes a new one.

This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad.

What the great ones do, the less will prattle of

Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house.

The quality of mercy is not strained

Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea.

In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

And to be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour. BEATRICE No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born.

Thou canst not speak of what thou dost not feel.

Till our King Henry had shook hands with Death.

The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the round world Should have shook lions into civil streets, And citizens to their dens.

Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber.

While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.

Sigh no more ladies, sigh no more, men were deceivers ever

Fear no more the heat o' th' sun Nor the furious winters' rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages. Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.

If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear.

Nothing comes from doing nothing.