Top 4037 Quotes & Sayings by William Shakespeare - Page 68
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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye.
And I will make it felony to drink small beer.
Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.
My love's more richer than my tongue.
Who are the violets now
That strew the lap of the new-come spring?
Their lips were four red roses on a stalk.
Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.
Conscience is a thousand swords.
You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant;
But yet you draw not iron, for my heart
Is true as steel: leave you your power to draw,
And I shall have no power to follow you.
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,
But bad mortality o'ersways their power,
How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,
Whose action is no stronger than a flower?
Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose.
For whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed.
But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd
Than that which withering on the virgin thorn
Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts
Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.
I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.
A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as the schoolboy on his way to school. (Act 2, scene 2)
He wears the rose
Of youth upon him.
We will draw the curtain and show you the picture.