Authors - William Shakespeare
Brief Biography
William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. - Wikipedia
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Quote 1269by Anonymous on 11/01/2011
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?
Quote 1402by Anonymous on 12/01/2011
Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.
Quote 1476by Anonymous on 14/01/2011
Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.
Quote 1713by Anonymous on 15/01/2011
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
Quote 1724by Anonymous on 15/01/2011
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Quote 2428by Anonymous on 29/01/2011
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
Quote 2506by Anonymous on 31/01/2011
Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes by chance.
Quote 3002by Anonymous on 03/02/2011
Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Quote 3050by Anonymous on 03/02/2011
This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
Quote 3119by Anonymous on 03/02/2011
Such men as he be never at heart's ease whiles they behold a greater than themselves, and therefore are they very dangerous.
Quote 3541by Anonymous on 06/02/2011
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
Quote 3804by Anonymous on 10/02/2011
Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.
Quote 3853by Anonymous on 12/02/2011
If thou rememb'rest not the slightest folly into which love hast made thee run, though hast not loved.
Quote 4167by Anonymous on 15/02/2011
Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Quote 4230by Anonymous on 18/02/2011
It's not enough to speak, but to speak true.
Quote 4257by Anonymous on 18/02/2011
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
Quote 4447by Anonymous on 21/02/2011
Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes hasten to their end.
Quote 4904by Anonymous on 04/05/2011
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
Quote 4936by Anonymous on 04/05/2011
Distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.
Quote 4946by Anonymous on 04/05/2011
Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights: Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
Quote 4964by Anonymous on 04/05/2011
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.
Quote 4968by Anonymous on 04/05/2011
I know myself know; and I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
Quote 4982by Anonymous on 04/05/2011
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven.
Quote 5008by Anonymous on 05/05/2011
The quality of mercy is not strain'd, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
Quote 5023by Anonymous on 06/05/2011
His flight was madness: when our actions do not, our fears do make us traitors.
Quote 5025by Anonymous on 06/05/2011
Though it be honest, it is never good to bring bad news: give to a gracious message an host of tongues; but let ill tidings tell themselves when they be felt.
Quote 5037by Anonymous on 09/05/2011
Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.
Quote 5043by Anonymous on 09/05/2011
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
Quote 5075by Anonymous on 12/05/2011
Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
Quote 5089by Anonymous on 14/05/2011
Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.
Quote 5113by Anonymous on 19/05/2011
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!It is the green-eyed monster which doth mockThe meat it feeds on.
Quote 5114by Anonymous on 20/05/2011
By the pricking of my thumbs,Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, Whoever knocks!
Quote 5131by Anonymous on 22/05/2011
I have never cared much for fish - it floats in the belly as much as in the pond.
Quote 5143by Anonymous on 25/05/2011
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Quote 5155by Anonymous on 26/05/2011
It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.
Quote 5164by Anonymous on 28/05/2011
Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.
Quote 5185by Anonymous on 02/06/2011
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.
Quote 5192by Anonymous on 03/06/2011
Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
Quote 5208by Anonymous on 05/06/2011
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn no traveller returns, puzzles the will, and makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of?
Quote 5222by Anonymous on 05/06/2011
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
Quote 5235by Anonymous on 06/06/2011
There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.
Quote 5238by Anonymous on 06/06/2011
The worst is notSo long as we can say, "This is the worst."
Quote 5293by Anonymous on 12/06/2011
Conscience does make cowards of us all, and thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.
Quote 5303by Anonymous on 13/06/2011
Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.
Quote 5317by Anonymous on 18/06/2011
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
Quote 5318by Anonymous on 19/06/2011
I am constant as the northern star, of whose true fix'd and resting quality there is no fellow in the firmament.
Quote 5336by Anonymous on 21/06/2011
What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.
Quote 5339by Anonymous on 21/06/2011
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger: Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.
Quote 5350by Anonymous on 21/06/2011
Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie.
Quote 5353by Anonymous on 21/06/2011
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
Quote 5377by Anonymous on 23/06/2011
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
Quote 5409by Anonymous on 26/06/2011
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.
Quote 5411by Anonymous on 27/06/2011
In a false quarrel there is no true valour.
Quote 5434by Anonymous on 30/06/2011
Lay on, Macduff, And damn'd be him that first cries, "Hold, enough!"
Quote 5471by Anonymous on 05/07/2011
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
Quote 5501by Anonymous on 07/07/2011
When he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine, that all the world will be in love with night, and pay no worship to the garish sun.
Quote 5529by Anonymous on 12/07/2011
Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.
Quote 5530by Anonymous on 12/07/2011
Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters...
Quote 5531by Anonymous on 12/07/2011
Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; take honour from me and my life is done.
Quote 5532by Anonymous on 12/07/2011
Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.
Quote 5533by Anonymous on 12/07/2011
It easeth some, though none it ever cured, to think their dolour others have endured.
Quote 5587by Anonymous on 24/07/2011
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.
Quote 5608by Anonymous on 29/07/2011
The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
Quote 5611by Anonymous on 31/07/2011
Blow, blow, thou winter wind! Thou art not so unkind as Man's ingratitude.
Quote 5613by Anonymous on 01/08/2011
Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Courtsied when you have, and kiss'd The wild waves whist.
Quote 5617by Anonymous on 01/08/2011
And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.
Quote 5643by Anonymous on 05/08/2011
Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.
Quote 5648by Anonymous on 06/08/2011
Yet I do fear thy nature; it is too full o' the milk of human kindness.
Quote 5670by Anonymous on 18/08/2011
I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve.
Quote 5703by Anonymous on 20/08/2011
Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither? Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.
Quote 5724by Anonymous on 22/08/2011
Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.
Quote 5746by Anonymous on 25/08/2011
I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, and falls on the other.
Quote 5750by Anonymous on 25/08/2011
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed.
Quote 5767by Anonymous on 26/08/2011
We must not make a scarecrow of the law, setting it up to fear the birds of prey, and let it keep one shape, till custom make it their perch and not their terror.
Quote 5845by Anonymous on 30/08/2011
No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
Quote 5855by Anonymous on 31/08/2011
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
Quote 5869by Anonymous on 03/09/2011
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
Quote 5909by Anonymous on 05/09/2011
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
Quote 5924by Anonymous on 06/09/2011
When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is a little better than a beast.
Quote 5934by Anonymous on 07/09/2011
Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.
Quote 5961by Anonymous on 08/09/2011
Though fortunes malice overthrow my state, my mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.
Quote 5973by Anonymous on 11/09/2011
I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.
Quote 5981by Anonymous on 11/09/2011
I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
Quote 5983by Anonymous on 11/09/2011
The sands are number'd that make up my life.
Quote 5986by Anonymous on 11/09/2011
O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day!
Quote 6002by Anonymous on 12/09/2011
And thus I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
Quote 6040by Anonymous on 12/09/2011
Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
Quote 6048by Anonymous on 12/09/2011
Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.
Quote 6080by Anonymous on 13/09/2011
Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.
Quote 6218by Anonymous on 16/09/2011
We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.
Quote 6247by Anonymous on 17/09/2011
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Quote 6248by Anonymous on 17/09/2011
I am not merry; but I do beguileThe thing I am, by seeming otherwise.
Quote 6264by Anonymous on 17/09/2011
Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.
Quote 6265by Anonymous on 17/09/2011
Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.
Quote 6276by Anonymous on 17/09/2011
Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.
Quote 6284by Anonymous on 17/09/2011
Was ever book containing such vile matter so fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwell in such a gorgeous palace!
Quote 6288by Anonymous on 17/09/2011
There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.
Quote 6401by Anonymous on 19/09/2011
Fortune, that arrant whore, ne'er turns the key to the poor.
Quote 6417by Anonymous on 19/09/2011
My salad days, When I was green in judgment.
Quote 6474by Anonymous on 19/09/2011
My tongue will tell the anger of mine heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break.
Quote 6487by Anonymous on 19/09/2011
I will wear my heart upon my sleeveFor daws to peck at.
Quote 6558by Anonymous on 28/09/2011
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
Quote 6559by Anonymous on 28/09/2011
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feelings as to sight?
Quote 6627by Anonymous on 02/10/2011
Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.
Quote 6634by Anonymous on 02/10/2011
I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.
Quote 6636by Anonymous on 02/10/2011
Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; A shining gloss that vadeth suddenly; A flower that dies when first it 'gins to bud; A brittle glass that's broken presently: A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, Lost, vaded, broken, dead within the hour.
Quote 6637by Anonymous on 02/10/2011
This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,-- This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
Quote 6647by Anonymous on 03/10/2011
He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.
Quote 6684by Anonymous on 04/10/2011
But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance.
Quote 6712by Anonymous on 04/10/2011
Frame your mind to mirth and merriment, which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.
Quote 6713by Anonymous on 04/10/2011
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
Quote 6740by Anonymous on 06/10/2011
The sense of death is most in apprehension; and the poor beetle, that we tread upon, in corporal sufferance feels a pang as great as when a giant dies.
Quote 6752by Anonymous on 07/10/2011
They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad.
Quote 6761by Anonymous on 07/10/2011
In the night, imagining some fear, how easy is a bush suppos'd a bear!
Quote 6780by Anonymous on 07/10/2011
For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men.
Quote 6841by Anonymous on 10/10/2011
His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
Quote 6869by Anonymous on 12/10/2011
Foolery... does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.
Quote 6876by Anonymous on 12/10/2011
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence.
Quote 6881by Anonymous on 12/10/2011
The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.
Quote 6917by Anonymous on 13/10/2011
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
Quote 6925by Anonymous on 13/10/2011
My salad days, when I was green in judgement, cold in blood.
Quote 6940by Anonymous on 14/10/2011
He takes false shadows for true substances.
Quote 6944by Anonymous on 14/10/2011
Blow, wind! Come, wrack! At least we'll die with harness on our back.
Quote 6980by Anonymous on 14/10/2011
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
Quote 6986by Anonymous on 14/10/2011
Losing a baby is not a thing that you could ever get used to.
Quote 7046by Anonymous on 17/10/2011
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.
Quote 7057by Anonymous on 19/10/2011
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go.
Quote 7083by Anonymous on 19/10/2011
How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!
Quote 7084by Anonymous on 21/10/2011
Oft expectations fails, and most oft there Where most it promises; and oft it hits Where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.
Quote 7094by Anonymous on 21/10/2011
Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd, doth burn the heart to cinders where it is.
Quote 7117by Anonymous on 22/10/2011
Gardener, for telling me these news of woe, pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow.
Quote 7130by Anonymous on 23/10/2011
Those that she makes fair she scarce makes honest; and those that she makes honest she makes very ill-favouredly.
Quote 7149by Anonymous on 25/10/2011
Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange.
Quote 7159by Anonymous on 26/10/2011
I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
Quote 7168by Anonymous on 26/10/2011
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
Quote 7182by Anonymous on 27/10/2011
Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.
Quote 7191by Anonymous on 27/10/2011
I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so.
Quote 7201by Anonymous on 27/10/2011
Their understanding Begins to swell and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shores That now lie foul and muddy.
Quote 7237by Anonymous on 29/10/2011
No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, the marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, become them with one half so good a grace as mercy does.
Quote 7241by Anonymous on 29/10/2011
I am a man more sinn'd against than sinning.
Quote 7246by Anonymous on 29/10/2011
How far your eyes may pierce, i cannot tell; striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
Quote 7251by Anonymous on 29/10/2011
Present mirth hath present laughter; what's to come is still unsure.
Quote 7257by Anonymous on 29/10/2011
Let me not live, after my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff of younger spirits.
Quote 7258by Anonymous on 30/10/2011
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste.
Quote 7266by Anonymous on 30/10/2011
Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Quote 7267by Anonymous on 30/10/2011
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Quote 7303by Anonymous on 02/11/2011
Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with.
Quote 7326by Anonymous on 03/11/2011
What seest thou elseIn the dark backward and abysm of time?
Quote 7359by Anonymous on 05/11/2011
Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?
Quote 7371by Anonymous on 07/11/2011
What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!
Quote 7443by Anonymous on 14/11/2011
Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole.
Quote 7446by Anonymous on 14/11/2011
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.
Quote 7449by Anonymous on 14/11/2011
Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, where death's approach is seen so terrible!
Quote 7451by Anonymous on 15/11/2011
The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute.
Quote 7454by Anonymous on 15/11/2011
If there were reason for these miseries, then into limits could I bind my woes.
Quote 7458by Anonymous on 15/11/2011
And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.
Quote 7469by Anonymous on 21/11/2011
A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.
Quote 7472by Anonymous on 23/11/2011
I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.
Quote 7479by Anonymous on 27/11/2011
O God, that man should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
Quote 7496by Anonymous on 05/12/2011
There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.
Quote 7503by Anonymous on 07/12/2011
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Quote 7506by Anonymous on 07/12/2011
I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.
Quote 7517by Anonymous on 10/12/2011
You shall more command with years than with your weapons.
Quote 7529by Anonymous on 15/12/2011
When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
Quote 7566by Anonymous on 26/12/2011
The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea.
Quote 7676by Anonymous on 16/01/2012
Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and will become as he should be.
Quote 7953by Anonymous on 08/03/2012
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
Quote 8349by Anonymous on 06/05/2012
So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!
Quote 8427by Anonymous on 12/05/2012
How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown!
Quote 8500by Anonymous on 14/05/2012
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
Quote 8579by Anonymous on 18/05/2012
Thou art not for the fashion of these times, where none will sweat but for promotion.
Quote 8610by Anonymous on 19/05/2012
Thou hast nor youth nor age, but, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep, dreaming on both.
Quote 8647by Anonymous on 21/05/2012
There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with 't.
Quote 8888by Anonymous on 03/06/2012
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
Quote 8896by Anonymous on 04/06/2012
[Drink] provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.
Quote 8991by Anonymous on 09/06/2012
The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.
Quote 9004by Anonymous on 10/06/2012
O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple.
Quote 9471by Anonymous on 01/08/2012
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Quote 9489by Anonymous on 01/08/2012
Do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
Quote 9517by Anonymous on 01/08/2012
Poor and content is rich, and rich enough; but riches fineless is as poor as winter to him that ever that ever fears he shall be poor.
Quote 9600by Anonymous on 05/08/2012
Leave her to heaven And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her.
Quote 9610by Anonymous on 08/08/2012
The common curse of mankind,-folly and ignorance.
Quote 9719by Anonymous on 15/08/2012
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
Quote 9751by Anonymous on 21/08/2012
Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.
Quote 9753by Anonymous on 21/08/2012
When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools.
Quote 9775by Anonymous on 23/08/2012
Lady you bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers.
Quote 9793by Anonymous on 23/08/2012
O, woe is me,To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!
Quote 9833by Anonymous on 25/08/2012
You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.
Quote 9854by Anonymous on 26/08/2012
Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice: Then must you speak of one that loved not wisely but too well.
Quote 9873by Anonymous on 27/08/2012
I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
Quote 9922by Anonymous on 01/09/2012
My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, nor to one place.
Quote 9957by Anonymous on 05/09/2012
Let Hercules himself do what he may, the cat will mew, and dog will have his day.
Quote 9958by Anonymous on 05/09/2012
We know what we are, but not what we may be.
Quote 10024by Anonymous on 08/09/2012
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
Quote 10031by Anonymous on 09/09/2012
The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it.
Quote 10090by Anonymous on 12/09/2012
If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.
Quote 10119by Anonymous on 14/09/2012
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
Quote 10193by Anonymous on 18/09/2012
Sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
Quote 10271by Anonymous on 25/09/2012
A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.
Quote 10279by Anonymous on 25/09/2012
You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.
Quote 10326by Anonymous on 27/09/2012
My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.
Quote 10355by Anonymous on 28/09/2012
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince:And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
Quote 10361by Anonymous on 28/09/2012
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
Quote 10389by Anonymous on 30/09/2012
O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven;It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder.
Quote 10445by Anonymous on 05/10/2012
A merry heart goes all the day, your sad tires in a mile-a.
Quote 10448by Anonymous on 05/10/2012
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
Quote 10484by Anonymous on 07/10/2012
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
Quote 10497by Anonymous on 08/10/2012
But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.
Quote 10510by Anonymous on 09/10/2012
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vicesMake instruments to plague us.
Quote 10551by Anonymous on 11/10/2012
But screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we'll not fail.
Quote 10596by Anonymous on 11/10/2012
Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
Quote 10629by Anonymous on 14/10/2012
Lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend
Quote 10637by Anonymous on 15/10/2012
How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
Quote 10662by Anonymous on 19/10/2012
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.
Quote 10672by Anonymous on 19/10/2012
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players.They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts...
Quote 10704by Anonymous on 22/10/2012
I am not bound to please thee with my answers.
Quote 10754by Anonymous on 25/10/2012
There's no bottom, none, in my voluptuousness: Your wives, your daughters, your matrons and your maids, could not fill up the cistern of my lust.
Quote 10772by Anonymous on 27/10/2012
Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.
Quote 10799by Anonymous on 29/10/2012
But to my mind, though I am native here and to the manner born, it is a custom more honour'd in breach than the observance.
Quote 10818by Anonymous on 01/11/2012
They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they starve with nothing.
Quote 10858by Anonymous on 04/11/2012
To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, gives in your weakness strength unto your foe.
Quote 10883by Anonymous on 06/11/2012
How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.
Quote 10937by Anonymous on 11/11/2012
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Quote 10942by Anonymous on 11/11/2012
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
Quote 11007by Anonymous on 15/11/2012
Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight.
Quote 11041by Anonymous on 17/11/2012
I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently.
Quote 11067by Anonymous on 20/11/2012
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
Quote 11084by Anonymous on 22/11/2012
So full of artless jealousy is guilt,It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
Quote 11143by Anonymous on 27/11/2012
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess
Quote 11203by Anonymous on 01/12/2012
When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.
Quote 11246by Anonymous on 05/12/2012
For 'tis the sport to have the engineerHoist with his own petard...
Quote 11320by Anonymous on 13/12/2012
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to plague us.
Quote 11344by Anonymous on 15/12/2012
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!
Quote 11407by Anonymous on 27/12/2012
I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.
Quote 11411by Anonymous on 27/12/2012
I must be cruel, only to be kind:Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
Quote 11441by Anonymous on 31/12/2012
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.
Quote 11453by Anonymous on 01/01/2013
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Quote 11462by Anonymous on 02/01/2013
That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
Quote 11481by Anonymous on 04/01/2013
I understand a fury in your words,But not the words.
Quote 11646by Anonymous on 13/01/2013
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.
Quote 11713by Anonymous on 17/01/2013
This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.
Quote 11774by Anonymous on 21/01/2013
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it isTo have a thankless child!
Quote 11799by Anonymous on 23/01/2013
Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich
Quote 11848by Anonymous on 26/01/2013
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
Quote 11889by Anonymous on 29/01/2013
The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope.
Quote 11907by Anonymous on 30/01/2013
A stirring dwarf we do allowance give before a sleeping giant.
Quote 11918by Anonymous on 31/01/2013
An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told.
Quote 11924by Anonymous on 31/01/2013
I wish you well and so I take my leave, I Pray you know me when we meet again.
Quote 12001by Anonymous on 13/02/2013
Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.
Quote 12057by Anonymous on 24/02/2013
It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.
Quote 12079by Anonymous on 26/02/2013
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.
Quote 12103by Anonymous on 02/03/2013
What's gone and what's past help Should be past grief.
Quote 12122by Anonymous on 07/03/2013
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
Quote 12182by Anonymous on 15/03/2013
I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.
Quote 12184by Anonymous on 15/03/2013
My age is as a lusty winter, frosty, but kindly.
Quote 12421by Anonymous on 09/04/2013
O fortune, fortune! All men call thee fickle.
Quote 12439by Anonymous on 12/04/2013
'Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God He knows, thy share thereof is small.
Quote 12506by Anonymous on 24/04/2013
The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.
Quote 12643by Anonymous on 05/05/2013
Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause.
Quote 12700by Anonymous on 14/05/2013
When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.
Quote 12704by Anonymous on 14/05/2013
O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His cannon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Quote 12708by Anonymous on 15/05/2013
Since Cleopatra died, I have liv'd in such dishonour that the gods Detest my baseness.
Quote 12712by Anonymous on 15/05/2013
Purpose is but the slave to memory, of violent birth, but poor validity.
Quote 12806by Anonymous on 25/05/2013
While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.
Quote 12834by Anonymous on 26/05/2013
Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers come to dust.
Quote 12844by Anonymous on 27/05/2013
This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.
Quote 12870by Anonymous on 30/05/2013
We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
Quote 12915by Anonymous on 02/06/2013
Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange.
Quote 12956by Anonymous on 05/06/2013
There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.
Quote 12960by Anonymous on 06/06/2013
Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea.
Quote 12981by Anonymous on 07/06/2013
He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.
Quote 13024by Anonymous on 12/06/2013
It would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and comes to all sorts of conclusions.
Quote 13087by Anonymous on 18/06/2013
What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.
Quote 13154by Anonymous on 23/06/2013
Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.
Quote 13261by Anonymous on 03/07/2013
Men at some time are the masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Quote 13269by Anonymous on 04/07/2013
'T is better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.
Quote 13299by Anonymous on 05/07/2013
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Quote 13358by Anonymous on 11/07/2013
See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.
Quote 13472by Anonymous on 25/07/2013
This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.
Quote 13509by Anonymous on 28/07/2013
Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it?
Quote 13536by Anonymous on 01/08/2013
Age cannot wither her, nor custom staleHer infinite variety.
Quote 13606by Anonymous on 09/08/2013
Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.
Quote 13633by Anonymous on 11/08/2013
The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.
Quote 13637by Anonymous on 11/08/2013
Things without all remedy should be without regard: What's done is done.
Quote 13655by Anonymous on 16/08/2013
Why, then the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.
Quote 13745by Anonymous on 27/08/2013
God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!
Quote 13765by Anonymous on 31/08/2013
O, she is rich in beauty, only poor that, when she dies, with beauty dies her store.
Quote 13848by Anonymous on 10/09/2013
For aught that I could ever read,Could ever hear by tale or history,The course of true love never did run smooth.
Quote 13897by Anonymous on 15/09/2013
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.
Quote 13903by Anonymous on 17/09/2013
Crabbed age and youth cannot live together.
Quote 13989by Anonymous on 02/10/2013
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.
Quote 14086by Anonymous on 04/11/2013
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
