William Shakespeare Quotes

“He that sleeps feels not the tooth-ache”

“Stay, my lord, And let your reason with your choler question What 'tis you go about: to climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first: anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England Can advise me like you: be to yourself As you would to your friend.”

“Though justice be thy plea consider this, that in the course of justice none of us should see salvation.”

“Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so,To make my end too sudden.”

“Remember thee!Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seatIn this distracted globe.”

“Then others for breath of words respect, Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect.”

“Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.”

“Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth.”

“Benvolio- "By my head, here come the Capulets." Mercutio- "By my heel, I care not.”

“But Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou love me?" Catherine: "I cannot tell." Henry: "Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask them.”

“In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge.”

“To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength,Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe,And so your follies fight against yourself.Fear, and be slain--so worse can come to fight;And fight and die is death destroying death,Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.”

“O, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable”

“Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.”

“...and then, in dreaming, / The clouds methought would open and show riches / Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked / I cried to dream again.”

“I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably.”

“Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.”

“But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow.”

“To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.”

“This we prescribe, though no physician; Deep malice makes too deep incision; Forget, forgive; conclude and be agreed; Our doctors say this is no month to bleed.”

“Some report a sea-maid spawn'd him; some that he was begot between two stock-fishes. But it is certain that when he makes water his urine is congealed ice.”

“A young man married is a man that's marred.”

“Why should we rise because 'tis light? Did we lie down because t'was night?”

“Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.”

“No legacy is so rich as honesty.”