Top 4037 Quotes & Sayings by William Shakespeare - Page 5

I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.

Every why has a wherefore.

Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain, But Lust's effect is tempest after sun; Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain, Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done; Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

I'll note you in my book of memory.

Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.

Affection is a coal that must be cooled; else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire.

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 Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die to sleep, To sleep, perchance to Dream; Aye, there's the rub.

Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.

Let every man be master of his time.

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still.

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

a girl takes too much time to love and a few seconds to hate. but a boy takes a few seconds to love and too much time to hate.

My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is called content, a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.

I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.

All things are ready, if our mind be so.

A good heart 'is worth gold.

This thing of darkness I acknowlege mine. There is nothing more confining than the prison we don't know we are in.

Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.

I wish you all the joy that you can wish.

Love is the greatest of dreams, yet the worst of nightmares.

One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.

There is plenty of time to sleep in the grave

Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.

Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends.

Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

God shall be my hope, my stay, my guide and lantern to my feet.

Tears water our growth.

Make use of time, let not advantage slip.

Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess

I am wealthy in my friends.

Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with its sweet oblivious antidote, cleanse the full bosom of all perilous stuff that weighs upon the heart.

Men of few words are the best men." (3.2.41)

There's many a man hath more hair than wit.

The good I stand on is my truth and honesty.

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.

If your mind dislike anything obey it

Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.

The instruments of darkness tell us truths.

Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.

My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul.

Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

Highly fed and lowly taught.

Time does not have the same appeal for every one

Sweet are the uses of adversity

A good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a black beard will turn white; a curl'd pate will grow bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun, and not the moon, — for it shines bright, and never changes, but keeps his course truly.

Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

The object of Art is to give life a shape.

Say as you think and speak it from your souls.

Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.

I would not wish any companion in the world but you.

You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.

All of Creation’s a farce. Man was born as a joke. In his head his reason is buffeted Like wind-blown smoke. Life is a game. Everyone ridicules everyone else. But he who has the last laugh Laughs longest.

Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.