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| William Shakespeare
A beast, that wants discourse of reason.A dish fit for the gods. A hit, a very palpable hit. A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! A little month. A little more than kin, and less than kind. A man can die but once. A motley fool. And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest! And go to't with delight. And lose the name of action. And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! And one man in his time plays many parts... And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN! And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. And seem I a saint, when most I play the Devil. And then the whining schoolboy..., creeping like snail unwillingly to school... {As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII} And wear a golden sorrow. And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. And, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of Heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun. {Romeo and Juliet} As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple. As good luck would have it. As proper men as ever trod upon neat's leather. As water in a sieve. Assume a virtue, if you have it not. Banners flout the sky. Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go. Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. Beware the ides of March. Blow, blow, thou winter wind! Thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude. But in ourselves, that we are underlings. But love is blind, and lovers cannot see. But not the words. But this denoted a foregone conclusion: 'Tis a shrewd doubt, though it be but a dream. By any other name would smell as sweet... Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe. Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war.Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war. Delays have dangerous ends. Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. Doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love. Dwindle, peak, and pine. Everyone can master a grief but he that has it. Exit, pursued by a bear. Fair is foul, and foul is fair. For being a little bad. For ever and a day. For the apparel oft proclaims the man. For the rain it raineth every day. For you and I are past our dancing days. Frailty, thy name is woman! Good things will strive to dwell with 't. He hath eaten me out of house and home. He lives in fame that died in virtue’s cause. He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. Help me, Cassius, or I sink! Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak. His acts being seven ages. How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child! How use doth breed a habit in a man. I 'll not budge an inch. I am a man more sinned against than sinning. I am not a slut, though I thank the Gods I am foul. I am wealthy in my friends. I bear a charmed life. I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'. I do now remember the poor creature, small beer. I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience. I have not slept one wink. I like not fair terms and a villain's mind. I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it. I shall desire more love and knowledge of you. I shall not look upon his like again. I think him so, because I think him so. I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.I will make a Star-chamber matter of it. I will speak daggers to her, but use none. I would fain die a dry death. If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me. If music be the food of love, play on. If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? In a cowslip's bell I lie. In a false quarrel there is no true valour. In converting Jews to Christians, you raise the price of pork. In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility. Into something rich and strange. Is bound in shallows and in miseries. Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies? Is rounded with a sleep. Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love. It is a wise father that knows his own child. It is a wise father who knows his own child. It is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself; it is needful that you frame the season of your own harvest. It is not night when I do see your face. It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear. Let never the night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord hath done. Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror. Like Niobe, all tears. Look how well my garments sit upon me.Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none. Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none.Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds. May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. Men of few words are the best men. Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. More honoured in the breach than the observance. More is thy due than more than all can pay. My love's more richer than my tongue. My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient. My salad days, when I was green in judgment. Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry [economy]. Neither rhyme nor reason. No legacy is so rich as honesty. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. Now join your hands, and with your hands your heart. Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground. O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? O that a man might know the end of this day's business ere it come! O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil! O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright. O, how full of briers is this working-day world! O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant. Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed. Off with his head! One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. (from Troilus and Cressida, Act 3, Scene 3) Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. Out of the jaws of death. Out, damned spot! out, I say! Out, out, brief candle! Life's 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 tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. Polonius: Very like a whale. Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? Queen: More matter, with less art. Reputation, reputation, reputation! Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause; and be silent that you may hear. See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O that I were a glove upon that hand, that I might touch that cheek! Signifying nothing. Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. Small things make base men proud. So wise so young, they say, do never live long. Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. Stands not within the prospect of belief. Stealing and giving odour! Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer. Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head. Tempt not a desperate man. That hath a mint of phrases in his brain. That I will speak to thee. That it should come to this! The better part of valour is discretion. The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree, such a hare is madness the youth to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel the cripple. {The Merchant of Venice} The common curse of mankind – folly and ignorance. The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. The game is up. The head is not more native to the heart. The king's name is a tower of strength. The lady doth protest too much, methinks. The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show. The live-long day. The miserable have no other medicine; but only hope. (Claudio, in Measure for Measure Act 3, Scene 1) The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just an charitable war. The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night of the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England. Thou canst not then be false to any man. Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't. Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught. To assume a pleasing shape. To credit his own lie. To have a thankless child! To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature. (from Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2) To see me thus transformed to a boy. True is it that we have seen better days. True nobility is exempt from fear. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. Unless to spy my shadow in the sun. Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. We are such stuff as dreams are made on, rounded with a little sleep. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. We have heard the chimes at midnight. We have seen better days. Well said: that was laid on with a trowel. What 's done is done. What a deformed thief this fashion is. 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! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! What angel wakes me from my flowery bed? What's gone and what's past help should be past grief. When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast. When I was at home I was in a better place; but travellers must be content. When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head. Will come when it will come. Wisely and slow: they stumble that run fast.Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast. With bag and baggage. Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart. Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness. You pay a great deal too dear for what's given freely. Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters. |
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