Quotes from William Shakespeare

Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humor? No; the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

What fates impose, that men must needs abide;It boots not to resist both wind and tide.

A truant disposition.

Who in the lusty stealth of nature takeMore composition and fierce qualityThan doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed,Go to the creating a whole tribe of fops.

The chariest maid is prodigal enoughIf she unmask her beauty to the moon;Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes;The canker galls the infants of the springToo oft before their buttons be disclos'd,And in the morn and liquid dew of youthContagious blastments are most imminent.

'Zounds! I was never so bethump'd with wordsSince I first call'd my brother's father dad.

The son and heir of a mongrel bitch.

Light seeking light doth light of light beguile.

I had rather be a kitten and cry mew,Than one of these same meter ballad-mongers.

O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!

The inaudible and noiseless foot of time.

Let's do it after the high Roman fashion,And make death proud to take us.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

But if it be a sin to covet honor,I am the most offending soul alive.

For I am proverb'd with a grandsire phrase.

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul.

The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief.

For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

An unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractic'd;Happy in this, she is not yet so oldBut she may learn.

And I have not forgotten what the inside of a church is made of, I am a peppercorn, a brewer's horse.

Who can be wise, amaz'd, temperate and furious,Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.

See, sons, what things you are!How quickly nature falls into revoltWhen gold becomes her object!

Report me and my cause aright.