Quotes from William Shakespeare

This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.

This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.

This fellow's wise enough to play the fool, And to do that well craves a kind of wit.

This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,-- This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.

Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with.

Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause.

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.

Though this be madness, yet there is method in it.

Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.

Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

To business that we love, we rise betime and go to't with delight.

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.

To die, to sleep --To sleep, perchance to dream, ay there's the rub,For in that sleep of death what dreams may comeWhen we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause there's the respectThat makes calamity of so long life.

To thine own self be true -; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou canst not be false to any man

To Thine Ownself Be True

To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.

True friendship is always a sweet responsible, never an opportunity.

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.

We are advertis'd by our loving friends.

We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.

Weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.

What a deformed thief this fashion is.

What's done can't be undone.