William Shakespeare
... the spring, the summer, The chilling autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world By their increase, now knows not which is which.Collection: Summer
Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way.Collection: Winter
The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.Collection: Dog
But 'tis common proof, that lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the upmost round, he then turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the vase defrees by which he did ascend.Collection: Ambition
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.Collection: Ocean
Time travels at different speeds for different people. I can tell you who time strolls for, who it trots for, who it gallops for, and who it stops cold for.Collection: People
All that glitters is not gold.Collection: Empty Vessels
I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.Collection: Memorable
Fill all thy bones with aches.Collection: Memorable
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.Collection: Memorable
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.Collection: Memorable
When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.Collection: Memorable
Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.Collection: Memorable
We have some salt of our youth in us.Collection: Memorable
While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.Collection: Memorable
Thou art the Mars of malcontents.Collection: Art
Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.Collection: Memorable
Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole.Collection: Memorable
I do begin to have bloody thoughts.Collection: Memorable
It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.Collection: Memorable
What the great ones do, the less will prattle ofCollection: Memorable
If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.Collection: Memorable
It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.Collection: Love
And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.Collection: Destiny
Why should you think that I should woo in scorn? Scorn and derision never come in tears: Look, when I vow, I weep; and vows so born, In their nativity all truth appears. How can these things in me seem scorn to you, Bearing the badge of faith, to prove them true?Collection: Thinking
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.Collection: Blessed
Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven, shall behold the night of our solemnities.Collection: Dream
In sooth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me, you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn.Collection: Venice
Plain and not honest is too harsh a style.Collection: Style
Can I go forward when my heart is here?Collection: Heart
The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.Collection: Karma
Time ... thou ceaseless lackey to eternity.Collection: Time
If thou remeber'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not lov'dCollection: Running