Quotes from William Shakespeare

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks.

O true apothecary!Thy drugs are quick.

Ungarter'd, and down-gyved to his ankle.

Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast;Ready with every nod to tumble downInto the fatal bowels of the deep.

There is a history in all men's lives.

What man dare, I dare:Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger;Take any shape but that, and my firm nervesShall never tremble.

Why should a man, whose blood is warm within,Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

For the life to come, I sleep out the thought of it.

I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.

I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts:I am no orator, as Brutus is;But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man.

Our foster-nurse of nature is repose.

Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

When the blood burns, how prodigal the soulLends the tongue vows.

There is something in the wind.

Murderer: We are men, my liege.Macbeth: Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men.

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

What you doStill betters what is done.

Such duty as the subject owes the prince,Even such a woman oweth to her husband.

Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?

For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth bringsThat then I scorn to change my state with kings.

Young in limbs, in judgment old.

Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber.

Chaste as the icicleThat's curdied by the frost from purest snow,And hangs on Dian's temple.