William Shakespeare
293 quotations
Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril.
A smile cures the wounding of a frown.
One may smile, and smile, and be a villain. [Hamlet]
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
I do desire we may be better strangers.
How excellent it is to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use like a giant.
I do not much dislike the matter, but the manner of his speech.
To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?
And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.
O, call back yesterday, bid time return.
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.
I did send to you for certain sums of gold, which you denied me.
When we are born we cry that we are come.. to this great stage of fools.
O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.
Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes.
To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.
It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking.
To fear the worst oft cures the worse.
Art made tongue-tied by authority.
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.