Quotes from William Shakespeare

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.

A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead.

To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown; But where there is true friendship, there needs none.

To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods.

If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not As to thy friends; for when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend?

Assure thee, if I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it to the last article." --Othello, Act III, Scene iii

The band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie which we ascribe to heaven.

In sleep a king, but, waking, no such matter

I am a feather for each wind that blows

We cannot all be masters

'Tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow; But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself

We know what we are, but know now what we may be.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.

He that dies pays all debts

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

My revenue is the silly cheat

We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards

Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.

Banquet: an affair where you eat a lot of food you don't want before talking about something you don't understand to a crowd of people who don't want to hear you