Quotes from William Shakespeare

You are made Rather to wonder at the things you hear Than to work any.

Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls; Conscience is but a work that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe: Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law!

If all the year were playing holidays To sport would be as tedious as to work.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty.

So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.

If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say, 'This poet lies; Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'

Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both!

Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.

That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of beauty is suspect, A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.

For honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey a sauce to sugar.

For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?

Ay; beauty's princely majesty is such, Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough.

Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things.

Golden lads and girls all must, like chimmney-sweepers, come to dust.

My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.

And send him many years of sunshine days!

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, Ang'ring itself and others.

Though inclination be as sharp as will, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

How easy it is for the proper-false in woman's waxen hearts to set their forms!

They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad.

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.