William Shakespeare Quotes

I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.
William Shakespeare
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.
William Shakespeare
His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN.
William Shakespeare
Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.
William Shakespeare
William shakespeare - each present joy or sorrow seems the chief....
Oh God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
William Shakespeare
William shakespeare - there is a tide in the affairs of men which taken...
William shakespeare - in time we hate that which we often fear....
I wish you well and so I take my leave, I Pray you know me when we meet again.
William Shakespeare
We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.
William Shakespeare
When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools.
William Shakespeare
Frailty, thy name is woman.
William Shakespeare
Age cannot wither her, nor custom staleHer infinite variety other women cloyThe appetites they feed, but she makes hungryWhere most she satisfies.
William Shakespeare
Their understanding Begins to swell and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shores That now lie foul and muddy.
William Shakespeare
Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.
William Shakespeare
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
William Shakespeare
Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.
William Shakespeare
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
William Shakespeare
Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
William Shakespeare
In false quarrels there is no true valor.
William Shakespeare
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
William Shakespeare
To thine own self be true -; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou canst not be false to any man.
William Shakespeare
I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.
William Shakespeare
Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew thee Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.
William Shakespeare
How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.
William Shakespeare
Alas, poor Yorick I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy...
William Shakespeare
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
William Shakespeare
Life is a tale told by an idiot - - Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare
I am not merry but I do beguile The thing I am, by seeming otherwise.
William Shakespeare
He is not great who is not greatly good.
William Shakespeare
Good night, good night parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
William Shakespeare
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat - Oppressed brain.
William Shakespeare
I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
William Shakespeare
The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
William Shakespeare
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare
To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
William Shakespeare
Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.
William Shakespeare
God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!
William Shakespeare
Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.
William Shakespeare
The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.
William Shakespeare