Quotes
from William Shakespeare – I defy you, stars
“What
do you read, my lord?
Hamlet:
Words, words, words.
Lord
Polonius: What is the matter, my lord?
Hamlet:
Between who?
Lord
Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.”
―
William Shakespeare
“The
lady doth protest too much, methinks.”
―
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“The
devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An
evil soul producing holy witness
Is
like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A
goodly apple rotten at the heart.
O,
what a goodly outside falsehood hath!”
―
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
“Some
Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.”
―
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
“Sweets
to the sweet, farewell! I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet’s wife; I
thought thy bride-bed to have decked, sweet maid, And not have strewed thy
grave.”
―
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“If
love be rough with you, be rough with love;
Prick
love for pricking, and you beat love down.
Give
me a case to put my visage in:
A
visor for a visor! what care I
What
curious eye doth quote deformities?
Here
are the beetle brows shall blush for me.”
―
William Shakespeare
“Are
you sure That we are awake? It seems to me That yet we sleep, we dream”
―
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“I
defy you, stars.”
―
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“The
lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are
of imagination all compact:
One
sees more devils than vast hell can hold,
That
is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,
Sees
Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:
The
poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth
glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven,
And
as imagination bodies forth
The
forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns
them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A
local habitation and a name.”
―
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“Madness
in great ones must not unwatched go.”
―
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“A
coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death
but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death,
a necessary end, will come when it will come.”
―
William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
“Go
wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.”
―
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“I
must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus
bad begins, and worse remains behind.”
―
William Shakespeare , Hamlet
“So
wise so young, they say, do never live long.”
―
William Shakespeare, Richard III
“If
we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.”
―
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“For
which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?”
―
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
“Women
may fall when there's no strength in men.
Act
II”
―
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“What
piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, 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.
And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?”
―
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“All's
well that ends well.”
―
William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
“I
know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where
oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite
over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With
sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.”
―
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“From
this day to the ending of the world,
But
we in it shall be remembered-
We
few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For
he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall
be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This
day shall gentle his condition;
And
gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall
think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And
hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That
fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.”
―
William Shakespeare, Henry V
