Quotes from William Shakespeare

The last taste of sweets is sweetest last.

He receives comfort like cold porridge.

Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.

Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs.

Mine eyes smell onions: I shall weep anon.

Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down?

I almost die for food, and let me have it!

Thy food is such As hath been belch'd on by infected lungs.

Tis not a year or two shows us a man: They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full They belch us.

Appetite, a universal wolf.

It is thyself, mine own self's better part; Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart; My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope's aim, My sole earth's heaven, and my heaven's claim.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself.

If little faults proceeding on distemper Shall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our eye When capital crimes, chewed, swallowed, and digested, Appear before us?

What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood Is there not rain enough in the sweet heaves To wash it white as snow?

That you were once unkind befriends me now, And for that sorrow, which I then did feel, Needs must I under my transgression bow, Unless my nerves were brass or hammered steel.

Poor and content is rich and rich enough.

Happy thou art not for what thou hast not still thou striv'est to get and what thou hast forget'est.

Let me embrace thee sour adversity for wise men say it is the wisest course.

Having my freedom, boast of nothing else.

I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends