Quotes from William Shakespeare

Thou hast not half that power to do me harm As I have to be hurt.

What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows?

The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings.

There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare

After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.

Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.

Watch tonight, pray tomorrow. Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you!

Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered!

We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit By losing of our prayers.

I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than thou learn a prayer without book.

His worst fault is, he's given to prayer; he is something peevish that way.

Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe. All many be well.

If yon bethink yourself of any crime Unreconcil'd as yet to heaven and grace, Solicit for it straight.

We do pray for mercy and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.

Now I am past all comforts here but prayer.

We ignorant of ourselves beg often our own harms which the wise powers deny us for our good.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

To me, fair friend, you never can be old For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still.

This above all - to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as night follows day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Who wooed in haste and means to wed at leisure

Sweet are the uses of adversity.

A very honest woman but something given to lie

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