It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.
William Shakespeare
Lady you bereft me of all words,
Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,
And there is such confusion in my powers.
William Shakespeare
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.
William Shakespeare
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
William Shakespeare
Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; take honour from me and my life is done.
William Shakespeare
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare
Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.
William Shakespeare
Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.
William Shakespeare
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.
William Shakespeare
Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.
William Shakespeare
Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.
William Shakespeare
See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.
William Shakespeare
So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!
William Shakespeare
Strong reasons make strong actions.
William Shakespeare
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
William Shakespeare
Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.
William Shakespeare
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.
William Shakespeare
The sands are number'd that make up my life.
William Shakespeare
The soul of this man is in his clothes.
William Shakespeare
The trust I have is in mine innocence,
and therefore am I bold and resolute.
William Shakespeare
Their understanding
Begins to swell and the approaching tide
Will shortly fill the reasonable shores
That now lie foul and muddy.
William Shakespeare
Thou art all the comfort,
The Gods will diet me with.
William Shakespeare
Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause.
William Shakespeare
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
William Shakespeare
Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.
William Shakespeare
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.
William Shakespeare
We are advertis'd by our loving friends.
William Shakespeare
We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.
William Shakespeare
We know what we are, but not what we may be.
William Shakespeare
When griping grief the heart doth wound,
and doleful dumps the mind opresses,
then music, with her silver sound,
with speedy help doth lend redress.
William Shakespeare
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we burdened with like weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves complain.
William Shakespeare
Action is eloquence.
William Shakespeare
And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of.
William Shakespeare
And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
William Shakespeare
Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
William Shakespeare
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
William Shakespeare
Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Thou art not so unkind,
As man's ingratitude.
William Shakespeare
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
William Shakespeare
For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.
William Shakespeare
Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger
constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood,
garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment,
not working with the eye without the ear,
and but in purged judgement trusting neither?
Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.
William Shakespeare
Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.
William Shakespeare
God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!
William Shakespeare
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
William Shakespeare
His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up,
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
William Shakespeare
How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.
William Shakespeare
How use doth breed a habit in a man.
William Shakespeare
I am not bound to please thee with my answers.
William Shakespeare
I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.
William Shakespeare
I dote on his very absence.
William Shakespeare
I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
William Shakespeare
I hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint of vice whose strong corruption
inhabits our frail blood.
William Shakespeare
I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
William Shakespeare
I pray thee cease thy counsel,
Which falls into mine ears as profitless
as water in a sieve.
William Shakespeare
I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.
William Shakespeare
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
William Shakespeare
I wish you well and so I take my leave,
I Pray you know me when we meet again.
William Shakespeare
Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.
William Shakespeare
In a false quarrel there is no true valour.
William Shakespeare
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.
William Shakespeare
In time we hate that which we often fear.
William Shakespeare
When we are born, we cry, that we are come
To this great stage of fools.
William Shakespeare
While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.
William Shakespeare
You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.
William Shakespeare
For aught that I could ever read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Act 1 scene 1
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Act 3 scene 2
Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare, "All's Well That Ends Well", Act 1 Scene 1
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
William Shakespeare, "All's Well that Ends Well", Act 3 scene 5
Praising what is lost
Makes the remembrance dear.
William Shakespeare, "All's Well that Ends Well", Act 5 scene 3
My salad days,
When I was green in judgment.
William Shakespeare, "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 1 scene 5
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety.
William Shakespeare, "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 2 scene 2
Small to greater matters must give way.
William Shakespeare, "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 2 scene 2
Since Cleopatra died,
I have liv'd in such dishonour that the gods
Detest my baseness.
William Shakespeare, "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 4 scene 14
I have
Immortal longings in me.
William Shakespeare, "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 5 scene 2
Hereafter, in a better world than this,
I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.
William Shakespeare, "As You Like It", Act 1 scene 2
The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.
William Shakespeare, "As You Like It", Act 1 scene 2
I met a fool i' the forest,
A motley fool.
William Shakespeare, "As You Like It", Act 1 scene 7
True is it that we have seen better days.
William Shakespeare, "As You Like It", Act 1 scene 7
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts...
William Shakespeare, "As You Like It", Act 2 scene 7
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare, "As You Like It", Act 5 scene 1
The game is up.
William Shakespeare, "Cymbeline", Act 3 scene 3
I have not slept one wink.
William Shakespeare, "Cymbeline", Act 3 scene 4
No, 'tis slander,
Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue
Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath
Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie
All corners of the world.
William Shakespeare, "Cymbeline", Act 3 scene 4
A little more than kin, and less than kind.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 2
Frailty, thy name is woman!
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 2
He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 2
Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in,
Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 3
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 3
But to my mind, though I am native here
And to the manner born, it is a custom
More honoured in the breach than the observance.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 4
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 4
Every man has business and desire,
Such as it is.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5
Leave her to heaven
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
To prick and sting her.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5
Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
The devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
The play's the thing
Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 1,/
I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 1
O, woe is me,
To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 1
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep:
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to,--'t is a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 1
Hamlet: Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?
Polonius: By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed.
Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel.
Polonius: It is backed like a weasel.
Hamlet: Or like a whale?
Polonius: Very like a whale.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 2
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 2
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 3
O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven;
It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't,
A brother's murder.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 3
For 'tis the sport to have the engineer
Hoist with his own petard...
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 4
I must be cruel, only to be kind:
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 4
So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 4 scene 5
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now; your gambols, your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? Quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 1
A hit, a very palpable hit.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince:
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2
The rest is silence.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2
Beware the ides of March.
William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 1 scene 2
But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.
William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 1 scene 2
Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights:
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 1 scene 2
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2
Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war.
William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 1
Et tu, Brute!
William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 1
How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
In states unborn and accents yet unknown!
William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 1
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