"[May] the worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul."
--William Shakespeare
"[Thou art] a disease that must be cut away."
--William Shakespeare
"[Thou] mountain of mad flesh!"
--William Shakespeare
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
--William Shakespeare
"A hit, a very palpable hit."
--William Shakespeare
"A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!"
--William Shakespeare
"A jest's prosperity lies in the ear
Of him that hears it, never in the tongue
Of him that makes it."
--William Shakespeare
"A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, Never in the tongue of him that makes it."
--William Shakespeare
"A kind
Of excellent dumb discourse."
--William Shakespeare
"A little more than kin, and less than kind."
--William Shakespeare
"A man in all the world's new fashion planted,
That hath a mint of phrases in his brain."
--William Shakespeare
"A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser."
--William Shakespeare
"A plague o' both your houses!"
--William Shakespeare
"A very ancient and fish-like smell."
--William Shakespeare
"A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more."
--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
"Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear."
--William Shakespeare
"Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment."
--William Shakespeare
"Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety."
--William Shakespeare
Topic: Literary
"Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety: other women cloy
The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry
Where most she satisfies."
--William Shakespeare
"Alas, how love can trifle with itself!"
--William Shakespeare
Topic: Literary
"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy..."
--William Shakespeare
"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
Topic: Literary
"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,
His acts being seven ages."
--William Shakespeare
Topic: Man
"All the world's a stage,And all the men and merely players.They have their exits and their entrances,And one man in his time plays many parts...."
--William Shakespeare
"Although the last, not least."
--William Shakespeare
"Ambition should be made of sterner stuff."
--William Shakespeare
"An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told."
--William Shakespeare
"And many strokes, though with a little axe,
Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak."
--William Shakespeare
Topic: Jealousy
"And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not."
--William Shakespeare
"And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betray's
In deepest consequence."
--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 summer's lease hath all too short a date."
--William Shakespeare
"And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
--William Shakespeare
"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."
--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
"And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes heaven drowsy with the harmony."
--William Shakespeare
"April hath put a spirit of youth in everything."
--William Shakespeare
"Art made tongue-tied by authority."
--William Shakespeare
"As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport."
--William Shakespeare
Topic: Literary
"As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods;
They kill us for their sport."
--William Shakespeare
"As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him."
--William Shakespeare
"As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words."
--William Shakespeare
"Assume a virtue, if you have it not."
--William Shakespeare
"At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows."
--William Shakespeare
"Be great in act, as you have been in thought."
--William Shakespeare
"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
--William Shakespeare
"Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them."
--William Shakespeare
"Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go."
--William Shakespeare
"Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar."
--William Shakespeare
"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"
--William Shakespeare
"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery."
--William Shakespeare
"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."
--William Shakespeare
"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."
--William Shakespeare
"Beware the ides of March."
--William Shakespeare
"Blow winds blow and crack your cheeks."
--William Shakespeare
Topic: Ingratitude
"Blow, blow thou winter wind,Thou art not so unkindAs man's ingratitude;Thy tooth is not so keen,Because thou art not seen,Although thy breath be rude."
--William Shakespeare
"Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Thou art not so unkind,
As man's ingratitude."
--William Shakespeare
"Boldness be my friend."
--William Shakespeare
"Brevity is the soul of wit."
--William Shakespeare
"But love is blind and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit;
For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
To see me thus transformed to a boy."
--William Shakespeare
Topic: Literary
"But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture,
Tell them that God bids us do good for evil.
And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With odd old ends stolen forth of holy writ,
And seem I a saint, when most I play the Devil."
--William Shakespeare
"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
"But when they seldom come, they wished for come."
--William Shakespeare
"But will they come when you do call for them?"
--William Shakespeare
"But, for my own part, it was Greek to me."
--William Shakespeare
"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."
--William Shakespeare
"By that sin fell the angels."
--William Shakespeare
"By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks!"
--William Shakespeare
"Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me the spirit."
--William Shakespeare
"Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere 'Tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs none."
--William Shakespeare
"Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong."
--William Shakespeare
"Come not within the measure of my wrath."
--William Shakespeare
"Come unto these yellow sands,
And then take hands:
Courtsied when you have, and kiss'd
The wild waves whist."
--William Shakespeare
"Concerning God, free will and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted."
--William Shakespeare
"Confusion now hath made his masterpiece."
--William Shakespeare
Topic: Conversation
"Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood."
--William Shakespeare
"Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man."
--William Shakespeare
"Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once."
--William Shakespeare
"Cowards die many times before their deaths: The valiant never taste of death but once."
--William Shakespeare
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once."
--William Shakespeare
Topic: Bravery
"Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once."
--William Shakespeare
Topic: Cowardice
"Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once."
--William Shakespeare
"Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war."
--William Shakespeare
"Cudgel thy brains no more about it."
--William Shakespeare
"Cursed be he that moves my bones."
--William Shakespeare
"Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away."
--William Shakespeare
"Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?"
--William Shakespeare
"Desire of having is the sin of covetousness."
--William Shakespeare
"Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect."
--William Shakespeare
"Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble."
--William Shakespeare
"Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble"
--William Shakespeare
"Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love."
--William Shakespeare
"Et tu, Brute!"
--William Shakespeare
"Every man has business and desire,
Such as it is."
--William Shakespeare
"Every man has his fault, and honesty is his."
--William Shakespeare
"Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct."
--William Shakespeare
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."
--William Shakespeare
"Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above."
--William Shakespeare
"Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,
But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,
Chaos is come again."
--William Shakespeare
"Exit, pursued by a bear."
--William Shakespeare
"Expectation is the root of all heartache."
--William Shakespeare
"Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble."
--William Shakespeare
"False face must hide what the false heart doth know."
--William Shakespeare
"Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality."
--William Shakespeare
"Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing."
--William Shakespeare
"Farewell, fair cruelty."
--William Shakespeare
"Fill all thy bones with aches."
--William Shakespeare
"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones."
--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
"For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men."
--William Shakespeare
"For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come."
--William Shakespeare
"For my part, it was Greek to me."
--William Shakespeare
"For they are yet ear-kissing arguments."
--William Shakespeare
"For 'tis the sport to have the engineer
Hoist with his own petard..."
--William Shakespeare
"Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered."
--William Shakespeare
"Frailty, thy name is woman!"
--William Shakespeare
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones."
--William Shakespeare
"Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent."
--William Shakespeare
"From the still-vexed Bermoothes."
--William Shakespeare
"Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange."
--William Shakespeare
"Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; take each man's censure but reserve thy judgement."
--William Shakespeare
"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."
--William Shakespeare
"Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me."
--William Shakespeare
"Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak Whispers the o're-fraught heart, and bids it break."
--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
"Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know."
--William Shakespeare
"Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know."
--William Shakespeare
"God be prais'd, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair."
--William Shakespeare
"God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!"
--William Shakespeare
"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."
--William Shakespeare
Topic: Humanity
"God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man."
--William Shakespeare
"Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow."
--William Shakespeare
Topic: Economy
"Have more than thou showest,Speak less than thou knowest."
--William Shakespeare
"Have more than thou showest; Speak less than thou knowest."
--William Shakespeare
"Having nothing, nothing can he lose."
--William Shakespeare
Topic: Grace
"He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural."
--William Shakespeare
"He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument."
--William Shakespeare
"He hath eaten me out of house and home."
--William Shakespeare
"He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike."
--William Shakespeare
"He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause."
--William Shakespeare
"He makes a swan-like end, fading in music."
--William Shakespeare
"He that dies pays all debts."
--William Shakespeare
"He that is giddy thinks the world turns round."
--William Shakespeare
"He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen,
Let him not know 't, and he's not robb'd at all."
--William Shakespeare
"He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer."
--William Shakespeare
"He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again."
--William Shakespeare
"He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat."
--William Shakespeare
"He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself."
--William Shakespeare
"Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself."
--William Shakespeare
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."
--William Shakespeare
"Here is my journey's end, here is my butt, And very sea-mark of my utmost sail."
--William Shakespeare
"Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English."
--William Shakespeare
"Hereafter, in a better world than this,
I shall desire more love and knowledge of you."
--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
"Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits."
--William Shakespeare
"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world!"
--William Shakespeare
"How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world."
--William Shakespeare
"How long a time lies in one little word?"
--William Shakespeare
"How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
In states unborn and accents yet unknown!"
--William Shakespeare
"How now, wit! Whither wander you?"
--William Shakespeare
"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"
--William Shakespeare
"How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees."
--William Shakespeare
"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child!"
--William Shakespeare
Topic: Ingratitude
"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it isTo have a thankless child! "
--William Shakespeare
"How use doth breed a habit in a man!"
--William Shakespeare
"How use doth breed a habit in a man."
--William Shakespeare
"I am not bound to please thee with my answer."
--William Shakespeare
"I am not bound to please thee with my answers."
--William Shakespeare
"I am not merry; but I do beguile
The thing I am, by seeming otherwise."
--William Shakespeare
"I bear a charmed life."
--William Shakespeare
"I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable."
--William Shakespeare
"I cannot tell what the dickens his name is."
--William Shakespeare
"I count myselt in nothing else so happy As in a soul rememb'ring my good friends."
--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
Topic: Independence
"I do desire we may be better strangers. "
--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 have
Immortal longings in me."
--William Shakespeare
"I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another."
--William Shakespeare
"I have no other but a woman's reason:
I think him so, because I think him so."
--William Shakespeare
"I have not slept one wink."
--William Shakespeare
"I met a fool i' the forest,
A motley fool."
--William Shakespeare
"I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind."
--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 shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart."
--William Shakespeare
"I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I."
--William Shakespeare
"I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet."
--William Shakespeare
"I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars."
--William Shakespeare
"I understand a fury in your words,
But not the words."
--William Shakespeare
"I was adored once too."
--William Shakespeare
"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me."
--William Shakespeare
"I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently."
--William Shakespeare
"I will be free, even to the uttermost, as I please, in words."
--William Shakespeare
"I will make a Star-chamber matter of it."
--William Shakespeare
"I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct."
--William Shakespeare
"I will praise any man that will praise me."
--William Shakespeare
"I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at."
--William Shakespeare
"I wish you well and so I take my leave,
I Pray you know me when we meet again."
--William Shakespeare
"I would fain die a dry death."
--William Shakespeare
"I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated
To closeness and the bettering of my mind."
--William Shakespeare
"If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work."
--William Shakespeare
"If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work."
--William Shakespeare
"If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul."
--William Shakespeare
"If music be the food of love, play on."
--William Shakespeare
"If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt."
--William Shakespeare
"If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
--William Shakespeare
"If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor."
--William Shakespeare
"If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me."
--William Shakespeare
"If you have tears, prepare to shed them now."
--William Shakespeare
"If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?"
--William Shakespeare
"If you want to win anything - a race, your self, your life - you have to go a little berserk."
--William Shakespeare
"Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven."
--William Shakespeare
"Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word."
--William Shakespeare
"In a false quarrel there is no true valor."
--William Shakespeare
"In a false quarrel there is no true valour."
--William Shakespeare
Topic: Procrastination
"In delay there lies no plenty."
--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
"Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?"
--William Shakespeare
"Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts."
--William Shakespeare
"It is a custom. More honored in the breach than the observance."
--William Shakespeare
"It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love."
--William Shakespeare
"It is a wise father that knows his own child"
--William Shakespeare
Topic: Children
"It is a wise father that knows his own child."
--William Shakespeare
"It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after."
--William Shakespeare
Topic: Fate And Destiny
"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
--William Shakespeare
"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves."
--William Shakespeare
"It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking."
--William Shakespeare
Topic: Vow
"It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold."
--William Shakespeare
"It provokes the desire but it take away the performance."
--William Shakespeare
Topic: Language
"It was greek to me."
--William Shakespeare
"It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood."
--William Shakespeare
Topic: Jesting, Jokes
"Jesters do oft prove prophets."
--William Shakespeare
Topic: Journey
"Journeys end in lovers' meeting,Every wise man's son doth know."
--William Shakespeare
"Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me
From mine own library with volumes that
I prize above my dukedom."
--William Shakespeare
"Lady you berefit me of all words,
Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,
And there is such confusion in my powers."
--William Shakespeare
"Lawless are they that make their wills their law."
--William Shakespeare
"Lay on, Macduff,
And damn'd be him that first cries, "Hold, enough!""
--William Shakespeare
"Leave her to heaven
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
To prick and sting her."
--William Shakespeare
"Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent."
--William Shakespeare
"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."
--William Shakespeare
"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
"Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments: love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds."
--William Shakespeare
"Let no such man be trusted."
--William Shakespeare
"Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life."
--William Shakespeare
"Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man."
--William Shakespeare
Topic: Life
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then is heard no more; it is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing."
--William Shakespeare
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end."
--William Shakespeare
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end."
--William Shakespeare
"Like one
Who having into truth, by telling of it,
Made such a sinner of his memory,
To credit his own lie."
--William Shakespeare
"Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!"
--William Shakespeare
"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
--William Shakespeare
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
--William Shakespeare
"Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none."
--William Shakespeare
"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs."
--William Shakespeare
"Love is a spirit of all compact of fire."
--William Shakespeare
"Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds."
--William Shakespeare
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
--William Shakespeare
"Love sought is good, but given unsought is better"
--William Shakespeare
"Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better."
--William Shakespeare
"Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine."
--William Shakespeare
"Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything."
--William Shakespeare
"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."
--William Shakespeare
"Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives."
--William Shakespeare
"Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings."
--William Shakespeare
"Men shut their doors against a setting sun."
--William Shakespeare
Topic: Vow
"Men's vows are women's traitors!"
--William Shakespeare
"Merrily, merrily shall I live now,
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough."
--William Shakespeare
"Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes."
--William Shakespeare
"Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; take honour from me and my life is done."
--William Shakespeare
"Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows."
--William Shakespeare
Topic: Doubt
"Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise."
--William Shakespeare
"Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue."
--William Shakespeare
"My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly."
--William Shakespeare
"My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy."
--William Shakespeare
"My library
Was dukedom large enough."
--William Shakespeare
"My library was dukedom large enough."
--William Shakespeare
"My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient."
--William Shakespeare
Topic: Human Nature
"My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand."
--William Shakespeare
"My pride fell with my fortunes."
--William Shakespeare
"My salad days,
When I was green in judgment."
--William Shakespeare
"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
--William Shakespeare
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be."
--William Shakespeare
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry [economy]."
--William Shakespeare
"[May] the worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul."
--William Shakespeare "[Thou art] a disease that must be cut away."
--William Shakespeare
"[Thou] mountain of mad flesh!"
--William Shakespeare
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
--William Shakespeare
"A hit, a very palpable hit."
--William Shakespeare
"A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!"
--William Shakespeare
"A jest's prosperity lies in the ear
Of him that hears it, never in the tongue
Of him that makes it."
--William Shakespeare
"A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, Never in the tongue of him that makes it."
--William Shakespeare
"A kind
Of excellent dumb discourse."
--William Shakespeare
"A little more than kin, and less than kind."
--William Shakespeare
"A man in all the world's new fashion planted,
That hath a mint of phrases in his brain."
--William Shakespeare
"A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser."
--William Shakespeare
"A plague o' both your houses!"
--William Shakespeare
"A very ancient and fish-like smell."
--William Shakespeare
"A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more."
--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
"Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear."
--William Shakespeare
"Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment."
--William Shakespeare
"Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety."
--William Shakespeare
Topic: Literary
"Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety: other women cloy
The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry
Where most she satisfies."
--William Shakespeare
"Alas, how love can trifle with itself!"
--William Shakespeare
Topic: Literary
"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy..."
--William Shakespeare
"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
Topic: Literary
"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,
His acts being seven ages."
--William Shakespeare
Topic: Man
"All the world's a stage,And all the men and merely players.They have their exits and their entrances,And one man in his time plays many parts...."
--William Shakespeare
"Although the last, not least."
--William Shakespeare
"Ambition should be made of sterner stuff."
--William Shakespeare
"An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told."
--William Shakespeare
"And many strokes, though with a little axe,
Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak."
--William Shakespeare
Topic: Jealousy
"And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not."
--William Shakespeare
"And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betray's
In deepest consequence."
--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 summer's lease hath all too short a date."
--William Shakespeare
"And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
--William Shakespeare
"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."
--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
"And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes heaven drowsy with the harmony."
--William Shakespeare
"April hath put a spirit of youth in everything."
--William Shakespeare
"Art made tongue-tied by authority."
--William Shakespeare
"As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport."
--William Shakespeare
Topic: Literary
"As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods;
They kill us for their sport."
--William Shakespeare
"As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him."
--William Shakespeare
"As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words."
--William Shakespeare
"Assume a virtue, if you have it not."
--William Shakespeare
"At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows."
--William Shakespeare
"Be great in act, as you have been in thought."
--William Shakespeare
"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
--William Shakespeare
"Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them."
--William Shakespeare
"Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go."
--William Shakespeare
"Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar."
--William Shakespeare
"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"
--William Shakespeare
"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery."
--William Shakespeare
"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."
--William Shakespeare
"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."
--William Shakespeare
"Beware the ides of March."
--William Shakespeare
"Blow winds blow and crack your cheeks."
--William Shakespeare
Topic: Ingratitude
"Blow, blow thou winter wind,Thou art not so unkindAs man's ingratitude;Thy tooth is not so keen,Because thou art not seen,Although thy breath be rude."
--William Shakespeare
"Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Thou art not so unkind,
As man's ingratitude."
--William Shakespeare
"Boldness be my friend."
--William Shakespeare
"Brevity is the soul of wit."
--William Shakespeare
"But love is blind and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit;
For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
To see me thus transformed to a boy."
--William Shakespeare
Topic: Literary
"But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture,
Tell them that God bids us do good for evil.
And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With odd old ends stolen forth of holy writ,
And seem I a saint, when most I play the Devil."
--William Shakespeare
"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
"But when they seldom come, they wished for come."
--William Shakespeare
"But will they come when you do call for them?"
--William Shakespeare
"But, for my own part, it was Greek to me."
--William Shakespeare
"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."
--William Shakespeare
"By that sin fell the angels."
--William Shakespeare
"By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks!"
--William Shakespeare
"Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me the spirit."
--William Shakespeare
"Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere 'Tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs none."
--William Shakespeare
"Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong."
--William Shakespeare
"Come not within the measure of my wrath."
--William Shakespeare
"Come unto these yellow sands,
And then take hands:
Courtsied when you have, and kiss'd
The wild waves whist."
--William Shakespeare
"Concerning God, free will and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted."
--William Shakespeare
"Confusion now hath made his masterpiece."
--William Shakespeare
Topic: Conversation
"Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood."
--William Shakespeare
"Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man."
--William Shakespeare
"Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once."
--William Shakespeare
"Cowards die many times before their deaths: The valiant never taste of death but once."
--William Shakespeare
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once."
--William Shakespeare
Topic: Bravery
"Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once."
--William Shakespeare
Topic: Cowardice
"Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once."
--William Shakespeare
"Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war."
--William Shakespeare
"Cudgel thy brains no more about it."
--William Shakespeare
"Cursed be he that moves my bones."
--William Shakespeare
"Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away."
--William Shakespeare
"Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?"
--William Shakespeare
"Desire of having is the sin of covetousness."
--William Shakespeare
"Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect."
--William Shakespeare
"Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble."
--William Shakespeare
"Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble"
--William Shakespeare
"Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love."
--William Shakespeare
"Et tu, Brute!"
--William Shakespeare
"Every man has business and desire,
Such as it is."
--William Shakespeare
"Every man has his fault, and honesty is his."
--William Shakespeare
"Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct."
--William Shakespeare
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."
--William Shakespeare
"Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above."
--William Shakespeare
"Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,
But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,
Chaos is come again."
--William Shakespeare
"Exit, pursued by a bear."
--William Shakespeare
"Expectation is the root of all heartache."
--William Shakespeare
"Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble."
--William Shakespeare
"False face must hide what the false heart doth know."
--William Shakespeare
