Top 100 Quotes & Timeless Words of Wisdom - Best Quotes Here

“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.”

“And makes me poor indeed.”

“The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.”

“Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.”

“Be great in act, as you have been in thought.”

“Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.”

“Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.”

“Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty look, repeats his words, Remembers me of his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form”

“The breach of customIs breach of all.”

“Much rain wears the marble.”

“They that have voice of lions and act of hares,--are they not monsters?”

“Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I will depart unkissed.”

“Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.”

“"Fair, kind, and true" is all my argument,"Fair, kind, and true" varying to other words;And in this change is my invention spent,Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.”

“Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.”

“Now, my masters, happy man be his dole, say I; every man to his business.”

“He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.”

“The soul of this man is his clothes.”

“The weary sun hath made a golden setAnd by the bright tract of his fiery carGives token of a goodly day to-morrow.”

“I had rather eleven died nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.”

“A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish.”

“Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.”

“Assume a virtue if you have it not.”

“They may seizeOn the white wonder of dear Juliet's handAnd steal immortal blessing from her lips,Who, even in pure and vestal modesty,Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin.”

“We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.”

“Tongues I'll hang on every treeThat shall civil sayings show. . . .”

“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.”