Quotes from William Shakespeare

O, swear not by the moon, th' inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.

This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.

Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.

Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

And nothing is, but what is not.

We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.

Romeo, Romeo. Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name.

Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania

Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.

If there is a good will, there is great way.

What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.

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.

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.

A little more than kin, a little less than kind.

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!

For man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.

You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse

Some rise by sin, and some by virtues fall.

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with light weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.

Take it in what sense thou wilt.

You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.

La culpa, no está en nuestras estrellas, sino en nosotros mismos, que consentimos en ser inferiores.

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.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.