Quotes from William Shakespeare

There's small choice in rotten apples.

Greatness knows itself.

My only love sprung from my only hate!Too early seen unknown, and known too late!

Fortune, good night, smile once more; turn thy wheel!

Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.

Thy honesty and love doth mince this matter.

It oft falls out,To have what we would have, we speak not what we mean.

Potations pottle deep.

Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,Brief as the lightning in the collied night,That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,And ere a man hath power to say, "Behold!"The jaws of darkness do devour it up:So quick bright things come to confusion.

If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned: if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved.

Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries.

Jaques: What stature is she of?Orlando: Just as high as my heart.

They are not a pipe for fortune's fingerTo sound what stop she please. Give me that manThat is not passion's slave, and I will wear himIn my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart,As I do thee. Something too much of this.

Stand not upon the order of your going,But go at once.

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,To throw a perfume on the violet,To smooth the ice, or add another hueUnto the rainbow, or with taper-lightTo seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.

My love'sMore richer than my tongue.

There's such divinity doth hedge a king,That treason can but peep to what it would.

Spite of cormorant devouring Time.

A grievous burden was thy birth to me;Tetchy and wayward was thy infancy.

I have not slept one wink.

O! when degree is shaked,Which is the ladder to all high designs,The enterprise is sick.

Here is my journey's end, here is my butt,And very sea-mark of my utmost sail.

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.

I have set my life upon a cast,And I will stand the hazard of the die.I think there be six Richmonds in the field.