Quotes
from William Shakespeare – My Crown is in my heart, not on my head
“Tax
not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once.”
―
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
“O,
swear not by the moon, th’ inconstant moon,
That
monthly changes in her circle orb,
Lest
that thy love prove likewise variable.”
―
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“Bid
me run, and I will strive with things impossible.”
―
William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
“Alas,
that love, so gentle in his view,
Should
be so tyrannous and rough in proof!
*It’s
sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it’s actually very rough when you
experience it.*”
―
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“A
little more than kin, a little less than kind.”
―
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“There
is special providence in the fall of a sparrow.”
―
William Shakespeare, Hamlet: A Television Script. Adapted by Michael Benthall
and Ralph Nelson for presentation on the CBS Television Network by the Old Vic
Company on February 24, 1959 at 9:30 EST.
“Romeo,
Romeo. Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name.”
―
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“What
sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?
Romeo:
Not having that, which, having, makes them short.”
―
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“As
I love the name of honour more than I fear death.”
―
William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
“We
all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are
angels.”
―
William Shakespeare, Henry VIII
“Tell
me where is fancy bred,
Or
in the heart, or in the head?”
―
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
“My
Crown is in my heart, not on my head:
Not
deck'd with Diamonds, and Indian stones:
Nor
to be seen: my Crown is call'd Content,
A
Crown it is, that seldom Kings enjoy.”
―
William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 3
“Suffer
love! A good ephitet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my
will.”
―
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
“Love
goes toward love as schoolboys from their books,
But
love from love, toward school with heavy looks.”
―
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“True
hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.”
―
William Shakespeare
“Not
a whit, we defy augury: there's a special
providence
in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,
'tis
not to come; if it be not to come, it will be
now;
if it be not now, yet it will come: the
readiness
is all.”
―
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“If
you can look into the seeds of time And say which grain will grow and which
will not, Speak, then, to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favors nor your
hate.”
―
William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“Ill
met by moonlight, proud Titania”
―
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Nights Dream
“O,
let me kiss that hand!
KING
LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.”
―
William Shakespeare, King Lear
“Blow,
winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow!
You
cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till
you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks!
You
sulphurour and thought-executing fires,
Vaunt-couriers
to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
Singe
my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
Strike
flat the thick rotundity o' the world!
Crack
nature's molds, all germens spill at once
That
make ingrateful man!”
―
William Shakespeare , King Lear
