William Shakespeare
293 quotations
Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.
It was Greek to me.
Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure.
The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv]
My library was dukedom large enough.
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport.
Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.
Simply the thing I am shall make me live.
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.
Thou art all ice. Thy kindness freezes.
Let never day nor night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord hath done.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.
Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]
To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.
Love is too young to know what conscience is.
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit
Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.
She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.
We that are true lovers run into strange capers.
O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper. I would not be mad.