Quotes from William Shakespeare

Like madness is the glory of this life As this pomp shows to a little oil and root.

Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself Till by broad spreading it disperse to naught.

Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.

Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.

When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

He doth entreat your grace, my noble lord, To visit him to-morrow or next day: He is within, with two right reverend fathers, Divinely bent to meditation, And in no worldly suits would he be moved To draw him from his holy exercise.

It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.

Shall i compare thee to a summers day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate

If I thought he'd been valiant and so cunning in fence, I'd have seen him damned ere I'd have challenged him

No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.

Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night; For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night Whiter than new snow upon a raven's back.

Conscience is a thousand swords.

There is no virtue like necessity.

Our bodies are our gardens - our wills are our gardeners.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

Love is a spirit all compact of fire

How soon my sorrow hath destroyed my face

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.

Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Everyone can master a grief but he that has it.