Shakespeare
Quotes - Remember me
“What is a man, if his chief good and market
of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us
with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that
capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused.”
―
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“You
taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse”
―
William Shakespeare, The Tempest
“You
are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.”
―
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
“Tis
the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.”
―
William Shakespeare, King Lear
“Remember
me.”
―
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“The
sins of the father are to be laid upon the children.”
―
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
“If
we should fail?
Lady
Macbeth:
We
fail?
But
screw your courage to the sticking place,
And
we'll not fail.”
―
William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“One
pain is lessened by another’s anguish. ... Take thou some new infection to thy
eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.”
―
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“In
nature there's no blemish but the mind;
None
can be called deformed but the unkind:
Virtue
is beauty, but the beauteous evil
Are
empty trunks, o'erflourished by the devil.”
―
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
“He's
of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger.... he is pure air
and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but
only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him; he is indeed a horse, and
all other jades you may call beasts.”
―
William Shakespeare, Henry V
“Let
me have men about me that are fat,
...Sleek-headed
men and such as sleep a-nights.
Yond
Cassius has a lean and hungry look,
He
thinks too much; such men are dangerous.”
―
William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
“Seems,"
madam? Nay, it is; I know not "seems."
'Tis
not alone my inky cloak, good mother,
Nor
customary suits of solemn black,
Nor
windy suspiration of forced breath,
No,
nor the fruitful river in the eye,
Nor
the dejected 'havior of the visage,
Together
with all forms, moods, shapes of grief,
That
can denote me truly: these indeed seem,
For
they are actions that a man might play:
But
I have that within which passeth show;
These
but the trappings and the suits of woe.”
―
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“Is
it not strange that sheep's guts could hail souls out of men's bodies?”
―
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
“What,
you egg? [stabs him]”
―
William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“And
his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.”
―
William Shakespeare, Othello
“God
shall be my hope, my stay, my guide and lantern to my feet.”
―
William Shakespeare, Henry V
“My
dear dear lord,
The
purest treasure mortal times afford
Is
spotless reputation: that away,
Men
are but gilded loam or painted clay.
A
jewel in a ten-times-barr'd-up chest
Is
a bold spirit in a loyal breast.
Mine
honour is my life; both grow in one:
Take
honour from me, and my life is done:
Then,
dear my liege, mine honour let me try;
In
that I live and for that will I die.”
―
William Shakespeare, Richard II
“I
was too young that time to value her,
But
now I know her. If she be a traitor,
Why,
so am I. We still have slept together,
Rose
at an instant, learned, played, eat together,
And
wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans,
Still
we went coupled and inseparable.”
―
William Shakespeare, As You Like It
“How
sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
Here
will we sit and let the sounds of music
Creep
in our ears: soft stillness and the night
Become
the touches of sweet harmony.
Sit,
Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven
Is
thick inlaid with patines of bright gold:
There's
not the smallest orb which thou behold'st
But
in his motion like an angel sings,
Still
quiring to the young-eyed cherubins;
Such
harmony is in immortal souls;
But
whilst this muddy vesture of decay
Doth
grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.”
―
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
