Quotes from William Shakespeare

Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, but seeming so, for my peculiar end: for when my outward action doth demonstrate the native act and figure of my heart in compliment extern, 'tis not long after but I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at: I am not what I am.

Kneel not to me. The pow'r that I have on you is to spare you; The malice towards you to forgive you. Live, And deal with others better.

Noi siamo della stessa materia Di cui son fatti i sogni E la nostra piccola vita È circondata da un sonno.

How now, spirit! Whither wander you?

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

Tell me, daughter Juliet, How stands your dispositions to be married It is an honor that I dream not of

When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he to day that sheds his blood with me, shall be my brother.

O, why should nature build so foul a den, Unless the gods delight in tragedies?

Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits? Malvolio: Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art. Feste: But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no better in you wits than a fool.

Come, be a man. Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies!

Proper deformity shows not in the fiend So horrid as in woman.

Dost think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale? (Twelfth Night)

Do not spread the compost on the weeds.

And now, tell me, for which of my bad qualities did you first fall in love with me?' 'All of them together,' she said. 'They maintained such a well organised state of evil that they wouldn't allow any good quality to intermingle with them

My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man That function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but what is not.

Why did you wish me milder? would you have me False to my nature? Rather say I play The man I am.

All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd.

Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.

What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?

Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so; And, being done, thus Wall away doth go.

No, sure, my lord, my mother cried, but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born.

Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter; dearer than eye-sight, space, and liberty, beyond waht can be valued, rich or rare; no less than life, with grace, health, beauty, honor; as much as child e'er loved, or father found; a love that makes breath poor, and speech unable; beyond all manner of so much I love you.

Come, sir, come, I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love. Look, here I have you, thus I let you go, And give you to the gods.