Quotes from William Shakespeare

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

Hence, horrible shadow!Unreal mockery, hence!

It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.

As many farewells as be stars in heaven.

These most brisk and giddy-paced times.

I understand a fury in your words,But not the words.

For Brutus is an honorable man;So are they all, all honorable men.

Look like the innocent flower,But be the serpent under 't.

Take, O take those lips away,That so sweetly were forsworn;And those eyes, the break of day,Lights that do mislead the morn:But my kisses bring again, bring again,Seals of love, but seal'd in vain, seal'd in vain.

All impediments in fancy's courseAre motives of more fancy.

Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-color'd taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day.

How many things by season season'd areTo their right praise and true perfection!

Our jovial star reigned at his birth.

Glamis hath murder'd sleep, and therefore CawdorShall sleep no more, Macbeth shall sleep no more!

To live a barren sister all your life,Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon.

When Fortune means to men most good,She looks upon them with a threatening eye.

But mice and rats and such small deerHave been Tom's food for seven long year.

And so, from hour to hour we ripe and ripe,And then from hour to hour we rot and rot,And thereby hangs a tale.

O Hamlet! what a falling-off was there.

They have a plentiful lack of wit.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

O brave new world,That has such people in't!

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!

'Tis better to be lowly born,And range with humble livers in content,Than to be perk'd up in a glist'ring griefAnd wear a golden sorrow.