Quotes
from William Shakespeare – I pray you, do not fall in love with me
“Friends,
Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I
come to bury Caesar, not to praise him;
The evil
that men do lives after them,
The
good is oft interred with their bones,
So
let it be with Caesar ... The noble Brutus
Hath
told you Caesar was ambitious:
If
it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And
grievously hath Caesar answered it ...
Here,
under leave of Brutus and the rest,
(For
Brutus is an honourable man;
So
are they all; all honourable men)
Come
I to speak in Caesar's funeral ...
He
was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But
Brutus says he was ambitious;
And
Brutus is an honourable man….
He
hath brought many captives home to Rome,
Whose
ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did
this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When
that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition
should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet
Brutus says he was ambitious;
And
Brutus is an honourable man.
You
all did see that on the Lupercal
I
thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which
he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet
Brutus says he was ambitious;
And,
sure, he is an honourable man.
I
speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But
here I am to speak what I do know.
You
all did love him once, not without cause:
What
cause withholds you then to mourn for him?
O
judgement! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And
men have lost their reason…. Bear with me;
My
heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And
I must pause till it come back to me”
―
William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
“Something
is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
―
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“I
pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.”
―
William Shakespeare, As You Like It
“Fair
is foul, and foul is fair, hover through fog and filthy air.”
―
Willam Shakesphere, Macbeth
“And
thus I clothe my naked villainy
With
odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ;
And
seem a saint, when most I play the devil.”
―
William Shakespeare, Richard III
“Be
not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds,
and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes
a thousand twangling instruments
Will
hum about mine ears; and sometime voices,
That,
if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will
make me sleep again: 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.”
―
William Shakespeare, The Tempest
“Love
comforeth like sunshine after rain,
But
Lust's effect is tempest after sun.
Love's
gentle spring doth always fresh remain;
Lust's
winter comes ere summer half be done.
Love
surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies;
Love
is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.”
―
William Shakespeare, The Complete Sonnets and Poems
“As
flies to wanton boys are we to the gods.
They
kill us for their sport.”
―
William Shakespeare, King Lear
“A
sad tale's best for winter: I have one of sprites and goblins.”
―
William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale
“Why,
what's the matter,
That
you have such a February face,
So
full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?”
―
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
“He
that is thy friend indeed,
He
will help thee in thy need:
If
thou sorrow, he will weep;
If
thou wake, he cannot sleep:
Thus
of every grief in heart
He
with thee doth bear a part.
These
are certain signs to know
Faithful
friend from flattering foe.”
―
William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim
“So
full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It
spills itself in fearing to be spilt.”
―
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
