Quotes
from William Shakespeare - Let us not burthen our remembrance with A heaviness
that's gone
“Tis
in ourselves that we are thus
or
thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which
our
wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant
nettles,
or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up
thyme,
supply it with one gender of herbs, or
distract
it with many, either to have it sterile
with
idleness, or manured with industry, why, the
power
and corrigible authority of this lies in our
wills.
If the balance of our lives had not one
scale
of reason to poise another of sensuality, the
blood
and baseness of our natures would conduct us
to
most preposterous conclusions: but we have
reason
to cool our raging motions, our carnal
stings,
our unbitted lusts, whereof I take this that
you
call love to be a sect or scion.”
―
William Shakespeare, Othello
“When
I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he
touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of
Hermes. ”
―
William Shakespeare, Henry V
“I
say, there is no darkness
but
ignorance; in which thou art more puzzled than
the
Egyptians in their fog.”
―
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
“Let
us not burthen our remembrance with
A
heaviness that's gone.”
―
William Shakespeare, The Tempest
“Now
is the winter of our discontent
Made
glorious summer by this sun of York;
And
all the clouds that lour'd upon our house
In
the deep bosom of the ocean buried.”
―
William Shakespeare, Richard III
“The
Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.”
―
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“Men
should be what they seem.”
―
William Shakespeare, Othello
“One
fire burns out another's burning,
One
pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.”
―
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“It’s
easy for someone to joke about scars if they’ve never been cut.”
―
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“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.”
―
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
“O!
she doth teach the torches to burn bright
It
seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like
a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear;
Beauty
too rich for use, for earth too dear.
-
Romeo -”
―
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“The
tempter or the tempted, who sins most?”
―
William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
“No
sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved
but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no
sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have
they made a pair of stairs to marriage...”
―
William Shakespeare, As You Like It
“True,
I talk of dreams,
Which
are the children of an idle brain,
Begot
of nothing but vain fantasy,
Which
is as thin of substance as the air,
And
more inconstant than the wind, who woos
Even
now the frozen bosom of the north,
And,
being anger'd, puffs away from thence,
Turning
his side to the dew-dropping south.”
―
William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet
“Take
pains. Be perfect.”
―
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“Men
of few words are the best men."
(3.2.41)”
―
William Shakespeare, Henry V
“How
poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Iago”
―
William Shakespeare, Othello
“Go
to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know. ”
―
William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
“To
bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He
hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses,
mocked
at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated
mine enemies; and what's his reason?
I am
a Jew.
Hath
not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs,dimensions, senses, affections,
passions?
Fed
with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases,
healed by the same means,
warmed
and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?
If
you prick us, do we not bleed?
If
you tickle us, do we not laugh?
If
you poison us, do we not die?
And
if you wrong us, shall we not
revenge?
If
we are like you in the rest, we will
resemble
you in that.
If a
Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge.
If a
Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example?
Why,
revenge.
The
villany you teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I
will
better the instruction.”
―
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
“Angels
are bright still, though the brightest fell.
Though
all things foul would wear the brows of grace,
Yet
Grace must still look so.”
―
William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“You
have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them
than in the tongues of the French council; and they should sooner persuade
Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs.”
―
William Shakespeare, Henry V
“Is
love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks
like thorn.”
―
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“I
have no spur
To
prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting
ambition, which o'erleaps itself
And
falls on the other.”
―
William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“If
I be waspish, best beware my sting.”
―
William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
