William Shakespeare
He doth nothing but talk of his horses.Collection: Horse
He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.Collection: Horse
Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.Collection: Loss
I am misanthropos, and hate mankind, For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog, That I might love thee something.Collection: Dog
A man cannot make him laugh - but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.Collection: Wine
Antonio: Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you? Sebastian: By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of my fate might, perhaps, distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad recompense for your love to lay any of them on you.Collection: Stars
This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh!Collection: Sassy
The wildest hath not such a heart as you. Run when you will, the story shall be changed: Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase; The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed, When cowardice pursues and valour flies.Collection: Running
My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.Collection: Hate
Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee.Collection: Marriage
That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation, And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges, In heaps and piles of ruin.Collection: Cities
There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times.Collection: Comforting
Fight valiantly to-day; and yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, for thou art framed of the firm truth of valor.Collection: Art
Hold, or cut bowstrings.Collection: Cutting
I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.Collection: Men
Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.Collection: Truth
Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves.Collection: Wife
Happy thou art not; for what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get; and what thou hast, forgettest.Collection: Art
Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.Collection: Food
Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.Collection: Life
Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.Collection: World
Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge, That no king can corrupt.Collection: Kings
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.Collection: Hope
All's well if all ends well.Collection: Ends
Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them.Collection: Ambition
There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out.Collection: Heaven
Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.Collection: Life
All offences come from the heart.Collection: Heart
Doubt is a thief that often makes us fear to tread where we might have won.Collection: Doubt
He makes a July's day short as December.Collection: Sarcastic
Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.Collection: Excellent
Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.Collection: Fashion
We see which way the stream of time doth run.Collection: Running
In delay there lies no plenty.Collection: Lying
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . .Collection: Art
We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.Collection: Opportunity
Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,' Like the poor cat i' the adage?Collection: Art
There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray you, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts. There's fennel for you, and columbines: — there 's rue for you; and here's some for me: — we may call it, herb of grace o'Sundays: — you may wear your rue with a difference. — There's a daisy: — I would give you some violets; but they withered all, when my father died: — They say, he made a good end.Collection: Sweet
love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commitCollection: Love