Shakespeare
Quotes - What a fool honesty is
“It
is not, nor it cannot, come to good,
But
break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.”
―
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“What
a fool honesty is.”
―
William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale
“Rich
gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.”
―
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“Ay
me! for aught that ever I could read,
could
ever hear by tale or history,
the
course of true love never did run smooth.”
―
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“It
is my lady. O, it is my love!
O,
that she knew she were!
She
speaks, yet she says nothing. What of that?
Her
eye discourses; I will answer it.
I
am too bold. ’Tis not to me she speaks.
Two
of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
Having
some business, do entreat her eyes
To
twinkle in their spheres till they return.
What
if her eyes were there, they in her head?
The
brightness of her cheek would shame those
stars”
―
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“Vengeance
is in my heart, death in my hand, Blood and revenge are hammering in my head”
―
William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
“Foolery,
sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.”
―
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
“He
that is strucken blind can not forget the precious treasure of his eyesight
lost.”
―
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“Up
and down, up and down
I
will lead them up and down
I
am feared in field in town
Goblin,
lead them up and down”
―
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“We
few. We happy few.
We
band of brothers, for he today
That
sheds his blood with me
Shall
be my brother.”
―
William Shakespeare, Henry V
“All
days are nights to see till I see thee,
And
nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.”
―
Shakespeare; William, Shakespeare's Sonnets
“There's
little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she
sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often
dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.”
―
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
“A
knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a
base,
proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited,
hundred-pound,
filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a
lily-livered,
action-taking knave, a whoreson,
glass-gazing,
super-serviceable finical rogue;
one-trunk-inheriting
slave; one that wouldst be a
bawd,
in way of good service, and art nothing but
the
composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar,
and
the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I
will
beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest
the
least syllable of thy addition.”
―
William Shakespeare, King Lear
“Virtue
itself turns vice, being misapplied,
And
vice sometime by action dignified.”
―
William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet
“It
is excellent To have a giant's strength But it is tyrannous To use it like a
giant”
―
William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
“I
have set my life upon a cast,
And
I will stand the hazard of the die.”
―
William Shakespeare, Richard III
“By
my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.”
―
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
“Men
must endure
Their
going hence, even as their coming hither.
Ripeness
is all.”
―
William Shakespeare, King Lear
“Your
cause of sorrow must not be measured by his worth, for then it hath no end.”
―
William Shakespeare, Macbeth: Playgoer's Edition
“O
God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the marketplace.”
―
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
“Not
marble nor the gilded monuments
Of
princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme,
But
you shall shine more bright in these contents
Than
unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time.
When
wasteful war shall statues overturn
And
broils roots out the work of masonry,
Nor
mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn
The
living record of your memory.
'Gainst
death and all-oblivious enmity
Shall
you pace forth; your praise shall still find room
Even
in the eyes of all posterity
That
wear this world out to the ending doom.
So,
till judgement that yourself arise,
You
in this, and dwell in lovers eyes.”
―
William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets
