Quotes
from William Shakespeare - What win I, if I gain the thing I seek?
“For
I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who
art as black as hell, as dark as night.”
―
William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets
“You
cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal:
except my life, except my life, except my life.”
―
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“And
sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own
company.”
―
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“No,
no, I am but shadow of myself:
You
are deceived, my substance is not here;”
―
William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1
“I
am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have
thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them
in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are
arrant knaves, all. Believe none of us.”
―
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“What
win I, if I gain the thing I seek?
A
dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy.
Who
buys a minute's mirth to wail a week?
Or
sells eternity to get a toy?
For
one sweet grape who will the vine destroy?
Or
what fond beggar, but to touch the crown,
Would
with the sceptre straight be strucken down?”
―
William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece
“I
would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.”
―
William Shakespeare, Othello
“Awake,
dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake.”
―
William Shakespeare, The Tempest
“Sweet
are the uses of adversity,
Which,
like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears
yet a precious jewel in his head;
And
this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Find
tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons
in stones, and good in everything.”
―
William Shakespeare, As You Like It
“Then
hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now;
Now,
while the world is bent my deeds to cross,
Join
with the spite of fortune, make me bow,
And
do not drop in for an after-loss:
Ah!
do not, when my heart hath ‘scaped this sorrow,
Come
in the rearward of a conquered woe;
Give
not a windy night a rainy morrow,
To
linger out a purposed overthrow.
If
thou wilt leave me, do not leave me last,
When
other petty griefs have done their spite,
But
in the onset come: so shall I taste
At
first the very worst of fortune’s might;
And
other strains of woe, which now seem woe,
Compared
with loss of thee, will not seem so.”
―
William Shakespeare
“Alas,
poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow
of
infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath
borne
me on his back a thousand times; and now, how
abhorred
in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at
it.
Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know
not
how oft. Where be your gibes now? your
gambols?
your songs? your flashes of merriment,
that
were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one
now,
to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?”
―
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“I
will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy
eyes—and
moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle’s.”
―
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
“Against
my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner.
BENEDICK
Fair
Beatrice, I thank you for your pains.
BEATRICE
I
took no more pains for those thanks than you take
pains
to thank me: if it had been painful, I would
not
have come.
BENEDICK
You
take pleasure then in the message?
BEATRICE
Yea,
just so much as you may take upon a knife's
point
... You have no stomach,
signior:
fare you well.
Exit
BENEDICK
Ha!
'Against my will I am sent to bid you come in
to
dinner;' there's a double meaning in that...”
―
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
“Eyes,
look your last!
Arms,
take your last embrace!
And,
lips, oh you the doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss a dateless bargain
to engrossing death!”
―
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“The
love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.”
―
William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“What,
my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?
Beatrice:
Is it possible disdain should die while she hath
such
meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?”
―
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
