Quotes from William Shakespeare

We were not born to sue, but to command.

See, your guests approach. Address yourself to entertain them sprightly, And let's be red with mirth.

There's method in his madness.

He that dies pays all his debts.

I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.

Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.

It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

These blessed candles of the night.

To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them.

My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul

Patch grief with proverbs

The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief: He robs himself that spends a bootless grief

Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief

My pride fell with my fortunes.

Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Hanging and Riving goes by destiny.

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,Chief nourisher in life's feast.

Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.

He makes a swan-like end, fading in music.

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.

A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind.