Quotes from William Shakespeare

Let me confess that we two must be twain, although our undivided loves are one.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

There's not a shirt and a half in all my company, and the half shirt is two napkins tacked together and thrown over the shoulders like a herald's coat without sleeves.

They are in the very wrath of love, and they will go together. Clubs cannot part them

Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.

Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day And make me travel forth without my cloak, To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way, Hiding they brav'ry in their rotten smoke?

I hope to see London once ere I die.

Travellers ne'er did lie, Though fools at home condemn 'em.-Antonio

When I was at home I was in a better place but travellers must be content.

Stones have been known to move and trees to speak.

Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .

Good morrow, fair ones; pray you, if you know, Where in the purlieus of this forest stands A sheep-cote fenc'd about with olive trees?

Hang there like fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.

I wonder men dare trust themselves with men.

There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.

The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute.

Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.

Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.

'Tis true 'tis pity And pity 'tis 'tis true.

My man's as true as steel.