Quotes from William Shakespeare

Nature does require her times of preservation.

I have heard it said There is an art which in their piedness shares With great creating nature.

A Devil, a born Devil on whose nature, nurture can never stick, on whom my pain, humanly taken, all lost, quite lost.

I am thy father's spirit; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night And, for the day, confin'd to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, Are burnt and purg'd away.

O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, 1710. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?

To hold as 't were the mirror up to nature.

Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.

Had it pleas'd heaven To try me with affliction * * * I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

O gentle son, Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper, sprinkle cool patience.

Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!

'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.

Who can be patient in extremes?

He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.

I do oppose My patience to his fury, and am arm'd To suffer, with a quietness of spirit, The very tyranny and rage of his.

Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.

Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling Extremity out of act.

what cannot be saved when fate takes, patience her injury a mockery makes

A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.

It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance