William Shakespeare

Quote link.: "Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety."
Quote link. Other quotes about: women: "Age cannot wither her, nor custom staleHer infinite variety other women cloyThe appetites they feed, but she makes hungryWhere most she satisfies."
Quote link.: "A hit, a very palpable hit."
Quote link.: "A horse a horse my kingdom for a horse"
Quote link. Other quotes about: never lies: "A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it."
Quote link.: "Alas, poor Yorick I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy..."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time pain born: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little: "A little more than kin, and less than kind."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world time men man women: "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."
Quote link.: "Although the last, not least."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world man: "A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little man hard: "And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth honest deep: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: discover sin: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old devil naked saint: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: heaven: "Angels and ministers of grace defend us.Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damned,Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell,Be thy intents wicked, or charitable,Thou com'st in such a questionable shape,That I will speak to thee."
Quote link. Other quotes about: honest: "An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told."
Quote link. Other quotes about: house: "A plague o' both your houses"
Quote link. Other quotes about: god: "As flies to wanton boys, are we to the godsThey kill us for their sport."
Quote link.: "Assume a virtue, if you have it not."
Quote link. Other quotes about: pain soul: "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."
Quote link.: "Be great in act, as you have been in thought."
Quote link. Other quotes about: born: "Be not afraid of greatness some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: snow: "Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man rich: "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."
Quote link.: "Beware the ides of March."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art man: "Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude."
Quote link. Other quotes about: soul: "Brevity is the soul of wit."
Quote link.: "But, for my own part, it was Greek to me."
Quote link. Other quotes about: sun light: "But, soft what light through yonder window breaks It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old god good evil devil naked saint: "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 villainyWith odd old ends stolen forth of holy writ,And seem I a saint, when most I play the Devil."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man mind born: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: something: "By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, Whoever knocks"
Quote link.: "Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood."
Quote link. Other quotes about: death die time never man: "Cowards die many times before their deathsThe valiant never taste of death but once."
Quote link. Other quotes about: death die time never men man fear: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: war: "Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war."
Quote link.: "Double, double toil and trouble Fire burn, and cauldron bubble."
Quote link.: "Et tu, Brute"
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "Every man has business and desire, Such as it is."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love soul: "Excellent wretch Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again."
Quote link. Other quotes about: history never love run: "For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men man: "For Brutus is an honourable man So are they all, all honourable men."
Quote link. Other quotes about: brother today: "For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother tomorrow."
Quote link.: "For they are yet ear-kissing arguments."
Quote link.: "For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petard..."
Quote link. Other quotes about: woman: "Frailty, thy name is woman"
Quote link. Other quotes about: anger work: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live men good evil country: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice take each man's censure but reserve thy judgement."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never: "Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught."
Quote link. Other quotes about: duty love mind: "God bless thee and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty"
Quote link. Other quotes about: something nothing man good woman soul: "Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls Who steals my purse steals trash 'tis something, nothing 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good: "Good night, good night parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow."
Quote link.: "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."
Quote link.: "He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument."
Quote link. Other quotes about: house: "He hath eaten me out of house and home."
Quote link.: "He is winding the watch of his wit by and by it will strike."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world love: "Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you."
Quote link.: "He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know 't, and he's not robb'd at all."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man look: "He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend man: "He was my friend, faithful, and just to meBut Brutus says, he was ambitious,And Brutus is an honorable man.He hath brought many captives home to Rome,Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill.Did this in Caesar seem ambitiousWhen the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept.Ambition should me made of sterner stuff,Yet Brutus says, he was ambitiousAnd Brutus is an honorable man."
Quote link.: "He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat."
Quote link.: "He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him if stronger, spare thyself."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world man life nature: "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"
Quote link. Other quotes about: world little good: "How far that little candle throws his beams So shines a good deed in a weary world."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old day: "How like a winter hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere"
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown"
Quote link. Other quotes about: patience: "How poor are they who have not patience What wound did ever heal but by degrees."
Quote link. Other quotes about: child: "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child"
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "How use doth breed a habit in a man."
Quote link. Other quotes about: answer: "I am not bound to please thee with my answers."
Quote link.: "I am not merry but I do beguile The thing I am, by seeming otherwise."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never: "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'."
Quote link.: "I dote on his very absence."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work: "If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth peace conscience: "I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience."
Quote link.: "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man hate: "I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god pain: "I have heard of your paintings too, well enough God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another."
Quote link.: "I have Immortal longings in me."
Quote link.: "I have not slept one wink."
Quote link. Other quotes about: evil: "Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word."
Quote link.: "I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad worse: "I must be cruel, only to be kind Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind."
Quote link.: "In a false quarrel there is no true valour."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing man peace: "In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time hate fear: "In time we hate that which we often fear."
Quote link.: "I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think peace soul: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art mind: "Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain"
Quote link. Other quotes about: old god man living honest: "I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I."
Quote link.: "It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after."
Quote link.: "It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
Quote link. Other quotes about: understand words: "I understand a fury in your words, But not the words."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time: "I wasted time, and now doth time waste me."
Quote link.: "I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wish: "I wish you all the joy you can wish."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wish: "I wish you well and so I take my leave, I Pray you know me when we meet again."
Quote link.: "Jesters do often prove prophets."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power words: "Lady you berefit me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first: "Lay on, Macduff, And damn'd be him that first cries, Hold, enough"
Quote link. Other quotes about: heaven: "Leave her to heaven And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think men sleep look: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing: "Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing walk: "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying Nothing."
Quote link.: "Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end."
Quote link.: "Lord, what fools these mortals be"
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong: "Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find love: "Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind look: "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die time love: "Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life grow: "Mine honour is my life both grow in one take honour from me and my life is done."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man understand good: "My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day: "My salad days, When I was green in judgment."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never words heaven: "My words fly up, my thoughts remain below Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend day man husband: "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."
Quote link.: "Niether a borrower nor a lender be."
Quote link. Other quotes about: honest rich: "No legacy is so rich as honesty."
Quote link. Other quotes about: sin: "Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing: "Nothing will come of nothing."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good rest sin: "Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest"
Quote link. Other quotes about: world time sun nature house peace war love fear change summer deep look soul: "Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, Our bruised arms hung up for monuments, Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them,-- Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun."
Quote link.: "Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts."
Quote link.: "O, beware, my lord, of jealousy It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on."
Quote link. Other quotes about: heaven: "O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lies: "Oh, that way madness lies let me shun that."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art god nothing little man saint: "Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew thee Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked."
Quote link. Other quotes about: brother heaven: "O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend nothing man dead peace war friends sin: "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood."
Quote link. Other quotes about: war mind: "O, now, for ever Farewell the tranquil mind farewell content Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars That make ambition virtue O, farewell Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell Othello's occupation's gone"
Quote link. Other quotes about: art: "O Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo"
Quote link.: "Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good fear: "Our doubts are traitors,And make us lose the good we oft might winBy fearing to attempt."
Quote link.: "Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie."
Quote link.: "Out, damned spot out, I say"
Quote link.: "O, woe is me, To have seen what I have seen, see what I see"
Quote link. Other quotes about: law: "Pity is the virture of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lost: "Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear."
Quote link. Other quotes about: forget: "Pray you now, forget and forgive."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lost: "Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit, and lost without deserving."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art father: "Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo Deny thy father, and refuse thy name..."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first purpose wise: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: sin: "Self-loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self-neglecting."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happy little perfect: "Silence is the perfectest herald of joy I were but little happy, if I could say how much."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live: "Simply the thing I am shall make me live."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die god: "Since Cleopatra died, I have liv'd in such dishonour that the gods Detest my baseness."
Quote link.: "Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast."
Quote link.: "Small to greater matters must give way."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art fear: "So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt."
Quote link. Other quotes about: rest: "So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him"
Quote link. Other quotes about: sin: "Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall."
Quote link.: "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."
Quote link. Other quotes about: thinking think words: "Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason: "Strong reasons make strong actions."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind: "Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind."
Quote link.: "Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head."
Quote link.: "The attempt and not the deed Confounds us."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never love run: "The course of true love never did run smooth."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power devil: "The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth music: "The earth has music for those who listen."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "The fashion wears out more apparel than the man."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think man wise: "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
Quote link. Other quotes about: game: "The game is up."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day: "The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god: "The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good: "The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason understand: "Their understanding Begins to swell and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shores That now lie foul and muddy."
Quote link.: "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
Quote link. Other quotes about: dead law: "The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little men wise: "The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show."
Quote link. Other quotes about: peace war heaven: "The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just an charitable war."
Quote link. Other quotes about: conscience: "The play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king."
Quote link.: "The Possible's slow fuse is lit By the Imagination."
Quote link. Other quotes about: rain heaven: "The quality of mercy is not strained It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed- It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes."
Quote link. Other quotes about: philosophy earth heaven: "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men life: "There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries."
Quote link. Other quotes about: thinking bad think nothing good: "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
Quote link.: "There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things."
Quote link. Other quotes about: silence rest: "The rest is silence."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life: "The sands are number'd that make up my life."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man clothes soul: "The soul of this man is in his clothes."
Quote link.: "The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute."
Quote link.: "The worst is not So long as we can say, This is the worst."
Quote link.: "They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad little men: "They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad."
Quote link.: "This above all to thine own self be true."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day man: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love summer: "This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never: "This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wise: "This fellow's wise enough to play the fool, And to do that well craves a kind of wit."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth happy world little men nature house war: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die art god: "Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with."
Quote link. Other quotes about: honest: "Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance."
Quote link.: "Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't."
Quote link. Other quotes about: dreams: "Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried."
Quote link.: "Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old wise: "Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise."
Quote link. Other quotes about: words: "Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live born: "'T is better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow."
Quote link.: "'Tis neither here nor there."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong death die something time man life respect dreams love sleep conscience mind wish law country: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love: "To business that we love, we rise betime and go to't with delight."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first: "To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first."
Quote link. Other quotes about: death die life respect dreams sleep: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: death day nothing time life light walk: "To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."
Quote link. Other quotes about: past: "To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men: "To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope god: "True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day: "True is it that we have seen better days."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth: "Truth is truth To the end of reckoning."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lies: "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."
Quote link. Other quotes about: words: "Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend friends: "We are advertis'd by our loving friends."
Quote link. Other quotes about: deep mind: "We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind."
Quote link.: "We know what we are, but know not what we may be."
Quote link.: "What a deformed thief this fashion is."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work reason god man: "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"
Quote link.: "What's done can't be undone."
Quote link.: "What's in a name That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet."
Quote link.: "What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine."
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