Quotes from William Shakespeare

His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.

Which dreams, indeed, are ambition, for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? O, no! the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse: Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more Than when he bites, but lanceth not the sore.

So are you to my thoughts as food to life, or as sweet seasoned showers are to the ground.

I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basalisks; I'll play the orator as well as Nestor, Decieve more slily that Ulysses could, And like a Sinon, take another Troy. I can add colors to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages And set the murderous Machiavel to school. Can I do this, and cannot get a crown? Tut! were it further off, I'll pluck it down.

Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you.

Be as thou wast wont to be. See as thou wast wont to see.

Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust.

Possiamo chiudere con il passato, ma il passato non chiude con noi.

They are all but stomachs, and we all but food. To eat us hungerly, and when they are full, They belch us.

So you walk softly and look sweetly and say nothing. I am yours for the walk and especially when I walk away.

Coal-black is better than another hue, In that it scorns to bear another hue; For all the water in the ocean Can never turn the swan's black legs to white, Although she lave them hourly in the flood.

The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law.

How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over, In states unborn and accents yet unknown!

And yet by heaven I think my love as rare / as any that she belie with false compare

He that hath the steerage of my course, Direct my sail.

Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,' Like the poor cat i' the adage?

Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules, but beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. I was a coward on instinct.

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause

If she lives till doomsday, she'll burn a week longer than the whole world.

No, my good lord, banish Peto, banish Bardolph, banish Poins, but for sweet Jack Falstaff, kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff, valiant Jack Falstaff, and therefore more valiant, being as he is, old Jack Falstaff, banish not him thy Harry's company, banish not him thy Harry's company. Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.

Los placeres violentos poseen finales violentos y tienen en su triunfo su propia muerte, del mismo modo en que se consumen el fuego y la pólvora en un beso voraz.

Seek happy nights to happy days.W

For by our ears our hearts oft tainted be.