Quotes from William Shakespeare

Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure,Like doth quit like, and Measure still for Measure.

He wants nothing of a god but eternity and a heaven to throne in.

O! what a deal of scorn looks beautifulIn the contempt and anger of his lip.

Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered with a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl?

Glory is like a circle in the water,Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.

Not marble, nor the gilded monumentsOf princes, shall outlive this powerful rime.

Set honor in one eye and death i' the other,And I will look on both indifferently.

Ah! do not, when my heart hath 'scap'd this sorrow,Come in the rearward of a conquer'd woe;Give not a windy night a rainy morrow,To linger out a purpos'd overthrow.

A habitation giddy and unsureHath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.

Tell me where is fancy bred,Or in the heart or in the head?How begot, how nourished?Reply, reply.

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

For nimble thought can jump both sea and land.

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

What he hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.

I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.

For several virtuesHave I lik'd several women.

We were as twinn'd lambs that did frisk i' the sun,And bleat the one at the other: what we chang'dWas innocence for innocence.

You spotted snakes with double tongue,Thorny hedge-hogs, be not seen;Newts, and blind-worms, do no wrong;Come not near our fairy queen.

Thou art not for the fashion of these times,Where none will sweat but for promotion.

Or may we cramWithin this wooden O the very casquesThat did affright the air at Agincourt?

'Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment.

Let them hang themselves in their own straps.

Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!