WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE QUOTES

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Golden lads and girls all must
As chimney-sweepers come to dust.

                           WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Cymbeline

Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;
To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot;  
This sensible war motion to become  
A kneaded clod, and the dilated spirit  
To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside  
In thrilling region of thick-ribbèd ice;  
To be imprisoned in the viewless winds,  
And blown with restless violence round about  
The pendant world; or to be worse than worst  
Of those that lawless and incertain thought  
Imagine howling -- 'tis too horrible!  
The weariest and most loathèd worldly life  
That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment  
Can lay on nature is a paradise  
To what we fear of death.
          WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Measure for Measure

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Richard II

The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Henry V

Patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Richard II

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,

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.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth

Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Antony and Cleopatra

Seest thou not what a deformed thief this fashion is?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing

Oh, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Measure for Measure

There's small choice in rotten apples.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, The Taming of the Shrew

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove.

Oh, no, it is an ever-fixèd mark

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wandering bark

Whose worth's unknown, although its height be taken.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, sonnet cxvi

For what is wedlock forced but a hell,

An age of discord and continued strife?

Whereas the contrary bringeth forth bliss,

And is a pattern of celestial peace.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI

But, O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It

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.

                             WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth

Good things of day begin to droop and drowse;
While night's black agents to their preys do rouse.

                            WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth

We are such stuff

As dreams are made on, and our little life

Is rounded with a sleep. 

                          WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest

For men have marble, women waxen, minds,
And therefore are they form'd as marble will;

The weak oppress'd, the impression of strange kinds

Is form'd in them by force, by fraud, or skill:

Then call them not the authors of their ill,

No more than wax shall be accounted evil

Wherein is stamp'd the semblance of a devil.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, The Rape of Lucrece

Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold?...

This yellow slave

Will knit and break religions, bless th’ accursed,

Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves,

And give them title, knee and approbation

With senators on the bench.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Timon of Athens

Nought's had, all's spent,
Where our desire is got without content. 
                            WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale,

And every tale condemns me for a villain.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Richard III

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Troilus and Cressida

Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet

You take my life when you take the means whereby I live.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice

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