Latest 50 Inspiring Quotes & Words of Wisdom - Best Quotes Network

“Get thee to a nunnery.”

“Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity.”

“What, no more ceremony? See, my women! Against the blown rose may they stop their nose That kneel'd unto the buds.”

“I am not bound to please thee with my answer.”

“Away, you cut-purse rascal! you filthy bung, away! By this wine, I'll thrust my knife in your mouldy chaps, an you play the saucy cuttle with me. Away, you bottle-ale rascal! you basket-hilt stale juggler, you!”

“To do a great right do a little wrong.”

“I that please some, try all, both joy and terrorOf good and bad, that makes and unfolds error.”

“Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.”

“Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.”

“What a fool honesty is.”

“Prosperity's the very bond of love, Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters.”

“Do all men kill the things they do not love?”

“The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst.”

“Things are often spoke and seldom meant.”

“Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.”

“Is this the generation of love? Hot blood, hot thoughts and hot deeds? Why, they are vipers. Is love a generation of vipers?”

“Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.”

“Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway, meeting the check of such another day.”

“Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.”

“My endeavorsHave ever come too short of my desires.Yet filed with my abilities.”

“Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief.”

“Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!”

“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 hold my peace, sir? no; No, I will speak as liberal as the north; Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.”

“Boldness be my friend.”

“Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.”

“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.”

“I'll teach you differences.”

“Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.”

“If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law.”

“The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason.”

“If ever thou shalt love,In the sweet pangs of it remember me;For such as I am all true lovers are,Unstaid and skittish in all motions elseSave in the constant image of the creatureThat is beloved.”

“Unsubstantial Death is amorous.”

“. . . nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death To throw away the dearest thing he owed, As 'twere a careless trifle.”

“Time, that takes survey of all the world,Must have a stop.”

“One half of me is yours, the other half is yours, Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours.”

“The time is out of joint.”

“Sound trumpets! Let our bloody colours wave! And either victory, or else a grave.”

“War is no strife To the dark house and the detested wife.”

“Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.”

“Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox, Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and locked up, Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.”

“I am declinedInto the vale of years.”

“If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage.”

“Love sees with the heart and not with mind.”

“What need the bridge much broader than the flood?”

“Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.”

“I say, without characters, fame lives long.”

“Bounty, being free itself, thinks all others so.”

“This liberty is all that I request.”

“Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.”