William Shakespeare - Twelfth Night , Act I scene ii

What the great ones do, the less will prattle of
William Shakespeare
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
William Shakespeare
I am not bound to please thee with my answers.
William Shakespeare
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we burdened with like weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves complain.
William Shakespeare
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
William Shakespeare
The soul of this man is in his clothes.
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
William Shakespeare - Macbeth, I.vii
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
William Shakespeare
I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.
William Shakespeare
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.
William Shakespeare
I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
William Shakespeare - "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 1 scene 1
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
William Shakespeare
I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
William Shakespeare - "King Lear", Act 3 scene 4
Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.
William Shakespeare - "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 5 scene 4
How use doth breed a habit in a man!
William Shakespeare
When griping grief the heart doth wound,
and doleful dumps the mind opresses,
then music, with her silver sound,
with speedy help doth lend redress.
William Shakespeare - "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 1
I would fain die a dry death.
William Shakespeare - "King Richard III", Act 5 scene 4
A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!
William Shakespeare - "King Richard III", Act 4 scene 3
An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told.
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 - The Rape of Lucrece Ver. 124
But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute.
William Shakespeare - "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare - The Tempest,, Act 1 Scene 2
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.
William Shakespeare - Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare
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 - "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
From the still-vexed Bermoothes.
William Shakespeare
It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.
William Shakespeare - Hamlet, 1600
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
William Shakespeare
In false quarrels there is no true valor.
William Shakespeare - "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 1 scene 1
He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.
William Shakespeare - "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 1 scene 3
O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day!
William Shakespeare - "The Tempest", Act 3 scene 3
A kind
Of excellent dumb discourse.
William Shakespeare
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
William Shakespeare
I pray thee cease thy counsel,
Which falls into mine ears as profitless
as water in a sieve.
William Shakespeare - "Troilus and Cressida", Act 4 scene 5
The end crowns all,
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it.
William Shakespeare - "Measure for Measure", Act 3 scene 1
The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.
William Shakespeare
In a false quarrel there is no true valour.
William Shakespeare
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
William Shakespeare - "Twelfth Night", Act 3 scene 4
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
William Shakespeare - "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
Speak to me as to thy thinkings,
As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts
The worst of words.
William Shakespeare - "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 3 scene 1
I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.
William Shakespeare - "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated
To closeness and the bettering of my mind.
William Shakespeare - Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3
Though inclination be as sharp as will,
My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,
And, like a man to double business bound,
I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
And both neglect.
William Shakespeare - "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 4 scene 1
Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole.
William Shakespeare
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
William Shakespeare - "Macbeth", Act 2 scene 1
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 - Romeo and Juliet
If rough be love with you, be rough with love.
William Shakespeare
You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.
William Shakespeare
It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.
William Shakespeare
I must be cruel, only to be kind.
William Shakespeare
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.
William Shakespeare - Sonnet CXVI
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
William Shakespeare - "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
William Shakespeare - Julius Caesar
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
William Shakespeare
Strong reasons make strong actions.
William Shakespeare
Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.
William Shakespeare - "King Lear", Act 1 scene 1
Nothing will come of nothing.
William Shakespeare - "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!
William Shakespeare - Sonnet cxvi
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments: love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds.
William Shakespeare - "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2
The rest is silence.
William Shakespeare
Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare - "King Lear", Act 5 scene 3
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
William Shakespeare - "Measure for Measure", Act 2 scene 1
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
William Shakespeare
Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.
William Shakespeare - "King Richard II", Act 2 scene 1
This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
William Shakespeare
When we are born, we cry, that we are come
To this great stage of fools.
William Shakespeare - Epitaph on his gravestone
Cursed be he that moves my bones.
William Shakespeare
Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.
William Shakespeare - Sonnet lxxxvii
Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.
William Shakespeare
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
William Shakespeare - "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 2 scene 3
We have some salt of our youth in us.
William Shakespeare - King Henry VI, Part 3
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
William Shakespeare - "King Henry IV Part II", Act 2 scene 1
He hath eaten me out of house and home.
William Shakespeare - "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 4
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
William Shakespeare - "As You Like It", Act 5 scene 1
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare - As You Like It
I like this place, and willingly would waste my time in it.
William Shakespeare
It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
William Shakespeare - "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 1
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go.
William Shakespeare
Action is eloquence.
William Shakespeare - "King Lear", Act 1 scene 1
Although the last, not least.
William Shakespeare - "King Henry V", Act 5 scene 1
There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.
William Shakespeare - "Julius Caesar", Act 1 scene 2
Beware the ides of March.
William Shakespeare - Richard II
I wasted time, now time doth waste me.
William Shakespeare - "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 2 scene 2
This is the short and the long of it.
William Shakespeare - "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 1
How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
In states unborn and accents yet unknown!
William Shakespeare
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare - "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 3
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
William Shakespeare
In time we hate that which we often fear.
William Shakespeare - "Macbeth", Act 4 scene 1
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks!
William Shakespeare - "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare - The Tempest, Act 4 Scene 1
I do begin to have bloody thoughts.
William Shakespeare - "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,
But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,
Chaos is come again.
William Shakespeare - "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
What seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of time?
William Shakespeare
How use doth breed a habit in a man.
William Shakespeare
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.
William Shakespeare - "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 5 scene 2
I have
Immortal longings in me.
William Shakespeare - "Measure for Measure", Act 5 scene 1
They say, best men are moulded out of faults,
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad.
William Shakespeare
Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.
William Shakespeare - Henry V
When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner.
William Shakespeare - "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
William Shakespeare - "Measure for Measure", Act 1 scene 4
Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
Oh God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
William Shakespeare - "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 3 scene 2
I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.
William Shakespeare - "Macbeth", Act 5 scene 1
Out, damned spot! out, I say!
William Shakespeare
Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause.
William Shakespeare - "King Henry VI Part III", Act 2 scene 1
And many strokes, though with a little axe,
Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.
William Shakespeare - Taming of the Shrew
My tongue will tell the anger of mine heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break.
William Shakespeare
He is not great who is not greatly good.
William Shakespeare - "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2
A hit, a very palpable hit.
William Shakespeare - "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
The fringed curtains of thine eye advance.
William Shakespeare - "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 1
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
William Shakespeare - Richard III, V.iii
I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;
And if I die no soul will pity me:
And wherefore should they, since that I myself
Find in myself no pity to myself?
William Shakespeare - "The Merchant of Venice", Act 1 scene 3
My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.
William Shakespeare - "As You Like It", Act 1 scene 7
True is it that we have seen better days.
William Shakespeare - Hamlet
Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare - "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 4
We burn daylight.
William Shakespeare - "Othello", Act 4 scene 2
I understand a fury in your words,
But not the words.
William Shakespeare
How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.
William Shakespeare
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.
William Shakespeare - "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 3 scene 1
That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
William Shakespeare
We know what we are, but not what we may be.
William Shakespeare - "The Merchant of Venice", Act 1 scene 2
I dote on his very absence.
William Shakespeare
I dote on his very absence.
William Shakespeare - "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
Fill all thy bones with aches.
William Shakespeare
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.
William Shakespeare - "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 3
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare
For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.
William Shakespeare
The course of true love was never easy.
William Shakespeare - "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare - "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 2
He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.
William Shakespeare - "King John", Act 5 scene 7
This England never did, nor never shall,
Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.
William Shakespeare - As You Like It, Act 1 Scene 2, character: Touchstone
The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.
William Shakespeare - A Comedy of Errors
He that commends me to mine own content
Commends me to the thing I cannot get.
William Shakespeare
We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.
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 - "Timon of Athens", Act 3 scene 1
Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.
William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6
But love is blind and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit;
For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
To see me thus transformed to a boy.
William Shakespeare - "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 1
I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
William Shakespeare - "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5
Leave her to heaven
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
To prick and sting her.
William Shakespeare
I wish you well and so I take my leave,
I Pray you know me when we meet again.
William Shakespeare - "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 5 scene 1
This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.
William Shakespeare
Let the coming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim.
William Shakespeare - "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 2
Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
William Shakespeare - "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.
William Shakespeare - "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
William Shakespeare - "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 2
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
William Shakespeare - "King Lear", Act 4 scene 1
The worst is not
So long as we can say, "This is the worst."
William Shakespeare - "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1
Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent.
William Shakespeare
In time we hate that which we often fear.
William Shakespeare - "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
My library
Was dukedom large enough.
William Shakespeare - "The Tempest", Act 2 scene 2
A very ancient and fish-like smell.
William Shakespeare - "King Henry IV Part I", Act 1 scene 2
If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work.
William Shakespeare
And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of.
William Shakespeare - "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
Like one
Who having into truth, by telling of it,
Made such a sinner of his memory,
To credit his own lie.
William Shakespeare - Hamlet. Polonius says this as Hamlet kills him behind the curtain.
O, I am slain!
William Shakespeare
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
William Shakespeare - "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 1 scene 5
My salad days,
When I was green in judgment.
William Shakespeare
Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.
William Shakespeare - "The Tempest", Act 3 scene 2
He that dies pays all debts.
William Shakespeare - "King Henry IV Part II", Act 2 scene 1
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
William Shakespeare - "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 5
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare
Thou art all the comfort,
The Gods will diet me with.
William Shakespeare - "Julius Caesar", Act 4 scene 3
There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
William Shakespeare - "As You Like It", Act 1 scene 2
Hereafter, in a better world than this,
I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.
William Shakespeare
While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.
William Shakespeare - "The Comedy of Errors", Act 3 scene 1
Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 2
If Love be rough with you, be rough with Love, prick Love for pricking, and you beat Love down.
William Shakespeare - "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 3
Thou art the Mars of malcontents.
William Shakespeare
To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature.
William Shakespeare
Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
William Shakespeare - "The Merchant of Venice", Act 2 scene 2
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare - "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 1
It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.
William Shakespeare - "King Henry VI Part II", Act 4 scene 1
The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day
Is crept into the bosom of the sea.
William Shakespeare - "The Tempest", Act 5 scene 1
Merrily, merrily shall I live now,
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
William Shakespeare - "Julius Caesar", Act 1 scene 2
But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.
William Shakespeare
I am wealthy in my friends.
William Shakespeare - "The Tempest", Act 2 scene 2
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
William Shakespeare - Romeo, in Romeo and Juliet, act 1, sc. 1.
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
William Shakespeare - "Much Ado About Nothing", Act III scene iii
What a deformed thief this fashion is.
William Shakespeare - "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 2
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men.
William Shakespeare - "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 2
Frailty, thy name is woman!
William Shakespeare
When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.
William Shakespeare
God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!
William Shakespeare
Lady you bereft me of all words,
Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,
And there is such confusion in my powers.
William Shakespeare - "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 2 scene 2
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety.
William Shakespeare - King John, II.i
Courage mounteth with occasion.
William Shakespeare - "Othello", Act 1 scene 1
I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at.
William Shakespeare - "Cymbeline", Act 3 scene 4
I have not slept one wink.
William Shakespeare - "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 2 scene 2
Small to greater matters must give way.
William Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing
There was a star danced, and under that was I born.
William Shakespeare
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
William Shakespeare - Hamlet
This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
William Shakespeare - "Measure for Measure", Act 5 scene 1
Truth is truth
To the end of reckoning.
William Shakespeare
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.
William Shakespeare - "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently.
William Shakespeare
The trust I have is in mine innocence,
and therefore am I bold and resolute.
William Shakespeare - Venus & Adonis
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else.
William Shakespeare - "Cymbeline", Act 3 scene 3
The game is up.
William Shakespeare - "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 2
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
William Shakespeare
Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.
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 - "Macbeth", Act 4 scene 1
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
William Shakespeare - "King John", Act 3 scene 4
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William Shakespeare - "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 5 scene 4
Come not within the measure of my wrath.
William Shakespeare - "King Lear", Act 4 scene 7
Pray you now, forget and forgive.
William Shakespeare - Macbeth, Act V, Scene V (MacBeth)
Life is but a walking Shadow, a poor Player That struts and frets his Hour upon the Stage, And then is heard no more; It is a tall Tale, Told by an Idiot, full of Sound and Fury, Signifying nothing."
William Shakespeare - "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince:
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
William Shakespeare
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.
William Shakespeare - Richard III
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity, but I know none, therefore am no beast.
William Shakespeare - The Tempest, Act 1 Scene 2
What seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of time?
William Shakespeare - "The Merchant of Venice", Act 1 scene 3
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
William Shakespeare - "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 1
I will make a Star-chamber matter of it.
William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; but love from look, toward school with heavy looks.
William Shakespeare
Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.
William Shakespeare
Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; take honour from me and my life is done.
William Shakespeare
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
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
Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.
William Shakespeare
Strong reasons make strong actions.
William Shakespeare - "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 1
O, woe is me,
To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!
William Shakespeare - Hamlet
Things are neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare
Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.
William Shakespeare - "Macbeth", Act 2 scene 2
The attempt and not the deed
Confounds us.
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
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 - The Tempest, Act II scene 1
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
William Shakespeare - Henry V.
From this day forward until the end of the world...we in it shall be remembered...we band of brothers.
William Shakespeare - Taming of the Shrew
He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
William Shakespeare - "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 1
Et tu, Brute!
William Shakespeare - "Othello", Act 2 scene 1
I am not merry; but I do beguile
The thing I am, by seeming otherwise.
William Shakespeare
Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare
I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.
William Shakespeare
Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare - "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 1
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.
William Shakespeare - "Hamlet", Act 4 scene 5
So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
William Shakespeare - "As You Like It", Act 1 scene 2
The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.
William Shakespeare - "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 2
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.
William Shakespeare - "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 1
If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.
William Shakespeare
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.
William Shakespeare - Hamlet, 1600
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare - "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5
Every man has business and desire,
Such as it is.
William Shakespeare - "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 4
But to my mind, though I am native here
And to the manner born, it is a custom
More honoured in the breach than the observance.
William Shakespeare - "Measure for Measure", Act 2 scene 2
The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.
William Shakespeare
Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits.
William Shakespeare
So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!
William Shakespeare
Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare - Julius Caesar
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare - The Tempest,, Act 1 Scene 1
I would fain die a dry death.
William Shakespeare - "The Merchant of Venice", Act 1 scene 2
When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.
William Shakespeare - "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 2
A little more than kin, and less than kind.
William Shakespeare - "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
The devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape.
William Shakespeare - "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 1
Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war.
William Shakespeare - "Timon of Athens", Act 4 scene 2
We have seen better days.
William Shakespeare - "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 4
I must be cruel, only to be kind:
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
William Shakespeare
Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.
William Shakespeare - Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 3
Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

- William Shakespeare - Twelfth Night , Act I scene ii