Quotes from William Shakespeare

Yesterday the bird of night did sit,Even at noonday, upon the marketplace,Hooting and shrieking.

I will make it felony to drink small beer.

WearinessCan snore upon the flint when resty slothFinds the down pillow hard.

Study is like the heaven's glorious sun,That will not be deep-search'd with saucy looks;Small have continual plodders ever won,Save base authority from others' books.These earthly godfathers of heaven's lightsThat give a name to every fixed star,Have no more profit of their shining nightsThan those that walk and wot not what they are.

Our basest beggarsAre in the poorest thing superfluous:Allow not nature more than nature needs,Man's life is cheap as beast's.

The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

Talkers are no good doers.

I may justly say with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome, "I came, saw, and overcame."

It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman,Which gives the stern'st good-night.

Orpheus with his lute made trees,And the mountain-tops that freeze,Bow themselves, when he did sing.

Delays have dangerous ends.

Ay, every inch a king.

From the east to western Ind,No jewel is like Rosalind.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

O mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low?Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils,Shrunk to this little measure?

You would pluck out the heart of my mystery.

Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds,Towards Phoebus' lodging.

Had he not resembledMy father as he slept I had done 't.

And ruin'd love, when it is built anew,Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

I am Misanthropos, and hate mankind.

He hath indeed better bettered expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how.

This is very midsummer madness.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.