Quotes from William Shakespeare

Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.

Live how we can, yet die we must.

Before thee stands this fair Hesperides, With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touched; For death-like dragons here affright thee hard.

I would fain die a dry death.

Let me be boiled to death with melancholy.

Though Death be poor, it ends a mortal woe.

Unless the old adage must be verified, That beggars mounted, run their horse to death.

Tired with all these, for restful death I cry.

What is thy sentence then but speechless death.

On pain of death, no person be so bold.

Speak me fair in death.

In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. -Sonnet 73

Whose heart the accustom'd sight of death makes hard.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

I'll follow you and make a heaven out of hell, and I'll die by your hand which I love so well.

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down,And ask of thee forgiveness.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noontide night.

Don't share your top secret with anyone. Because, if you yourself can't keep your secrets, don't expect somebody else to keep it.