Quotes from William Shakespeare

A beast, that wants discourse of reason.

A good mouth-filling oath.

O heaven! that such companions thou'dst unfold,And put in every honest hand a whipTo lash the rascals naked through the world.

He shall have a noble memory.

And then he drew a dial from his poke,And, looking on it with lack-luster eye,Says very wisely, "It is ten o'clock;Thus may we see," quoth he, "how the world wags."

As good luck would have it.

The horn, the horn, the lusty hornIs not a thing to laugh to scorn.

I have seen better faces in my timeThan stands on any shoulder that I seeBefore me at this instant.

I have had my labor for my travail.

Armed at points exactly, cap-a-pe.

Let him look to his bond.

O! what a war of looks was then between them.

Why, she would hang on him,As if increase of appetite had grownBy what it fed on.

Be thou the tenth Muse.

I will to EgyptAnd though I make this marriage for my peace,I' the East my pleasure lies.

Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows.

In the dead vast and middle of the night.

She has brown hair, and speaks small like a woman.

To bring in—God shield us!—a lion among ladies, is a most dreadful thing; for there is not a more fearful wild-fowl than your lion living.

Every way makes my gain.

The day will come that thou shalt wish for meTo help thee curse this pois'nous bunch-back'd toad.

Let still the woman takeAn elder than herself, so wears she to him,So sways she level in her husband's heart:For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn,Than women's are.

Well, God's above all; and there be souls must be saved, and there be souls must not be saved.

And sheath'd their swords for lack of argument.