William Shakespeare
293 quotations
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed.
All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven.
Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.
Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.
The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. [Hamlet]
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]
I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
Words pay no debts.
He that dies pays all his debts.
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
Such as we are made of, such we be.
The devil has the power to assume a pleasing shape.
That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
Thought are but dreams till their effects are tried.
The apparel oft proclaims the man.
Nothing can come of nothing.