These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triump die, like fire and powder
Which, as they kiss, consume
William Shakespeare
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These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE These violent delights have violent ends.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE These violent delights have violent ends
STEPHANIE MEYER Lovers find secret places
inside this violent world
where they make transactions
wit...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.
S.E. HINTON And when life's sweet fable ends,
Soul and body part like friends;
No quarrels, murmurs, no ...
RICHARD CRASHAW Why should I blame her that she filled my days
With misery, or that she would of late
Hav...
W.B. YEATS Wherever his faltering mind,
unsteadily wanders,
he should restrain it
and bring it u...
VIKRAM SETH These wrinkles are nothing
These gray hairs are nothing,
This stomach which sags
with...
MARK STRAND This is the very ecstasy of love,
Whose violent property fordoes itself
And leads the will...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'
AL PACINO Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety."
Antony and Cleopatra (II.ii) ~Wi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Flowers, cold from the dew,
And autumn's approaching breath,
I pluck for the warm, luxuria...
ANNA AKHMATOVA ... bright young men of disheveled appearance, often with
sunken glowing eyes, can be seen sitt...
JOSEPH WEIZENBAUM let my heart always be
like it is...this very moment
ready to explode...with love
a v...
SANOBER KHAN Lovers dream of one more embrace.
One more kiss.
One act of love, no matter how small.
KAMAND KOJOURI the flames are silent,
Peace is violent,
Tears are frozen
’cause massacre was chose...
ANKITA SINGHAL The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
MARC NORMAN How they are all about, these gentlemen
In chamberlains' apparel, stocked and laced,
Like ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Oh! might I kiss those eyes of fire,
A million scarce would quench desire;
Still would I stee...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incomp...
JAMES MADISON To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY I open my eyes.
I want to know:
what is in the abyss of a kiss?
Are stars born in t...
KAMAND KOJOURI These people are prisoners of conscience, imprisoned solely on account of their non-violent opinions...
KOLAWOLE OLANIYAN Here's what I have to say about being married: someday you will look at him, hating him with every f...
LENA DUNHAM But what was more violent than making people disbelieve in the worth of their own lives? What was mo...
ISHMAEL BEAH
Before Jerusalem
Now they've come before Jerusalem.
Passions, avar...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS It's an unwritten and widely unacknowledged fact, that land always ends up belonging to the most vio...
MANGO WODZAK Others, I am not the first,
Have willed more mischief than they durst:
If in the breathles...
A.E. HOUSMAN Incendiary
That one small boy with a face like pallid cheese
And burnt-out little ey...
VERNON SCANNELL Some live for their own joy and pleasure.
Some live to ease the burdens of others.
The...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH We make violent cops, we make violent criminals, and no wonder we have shootouts in slums all of the...
JOSE PADILHA There are too many tears in my eyes!
The fires of Hell are no more than sparks of fire
as ...
OMAR KHAYYáM ...feel the fierce way desire
tourniquets itself around you and
clings
Clubland...
CLINT CATALYST You might belong in Gryffindor,
Where dwell the brave at heart,
Their daring, nerve, and c...
J.K. ROWLING They're so cold, these scholars!
May lightning strike their food
so that their mouths lear...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE the pleasures of the damned
are limited to brief moments
of happiness:
like eyes in t...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI O love, O fire! once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul through
My lips, as sunlight...
ALFRED TENNYSON O love, O fire! once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul through
My lips, as sunlight d...
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON These are desperate criminals, probably involved in the drug trade in some way. They're violent, and...
CHRIS MCGOEY And then they kiss.
Slowly, gently.
Because with the right person, sometimes kissing feels...
LISA MCMANN A tired man lay down his head
in a dusty room so dim,
and for so long his wife did shake ROMAN PAYNE And the only thing I knew how to do was to hold on as tightly as possible and count every single sec...
CECILIA VINESSE O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My love has placed her little hand
With noble faith in mine,
And vowed that wedlock's sa...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Listen, we’ll come visit you. Okay? I’ll dress up as William Shakespeare, Lucent as Emily Dickin...
TIM CUMMINGS I love violent Shakespeare. It is to me what steak is to some people: the bloodier the better.
MARA WILSON Nothing can escape death.
Not even the Sun.
Not even the Earth.
Not even the unive...
HINA YU We haven't seen these violent moves [in prices] in several weeks.
GEORGE GERO These images in vivid and violent tones have resulted from crystallization of memories of the circus...
HENRI MATISSE Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intellige...
L. NEIL SMITH Butterfly Kisses
Aged imperfections
stitched upon my face
years and years of wi...
MUSE Words
Be careful of words,
even the miraculous ones.
For the miraculous ...
ANNE SEXTON Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows w...
RICK OSBORNE Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows w...
JOHN WOODS I think of you like a sister," he said. "Like a brilliant, violent, occasionally terrifying sister t...
KIERSTEN WHITE what ho, apothecary!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit
With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit,
And...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of ...
JOHN RUSKIN No one is exempt
and everyone's pain has a different smell.
At night, when all the...
CRAIG RAINE For men that are afraid to die
Must warm their hands before a lie;
The fire that's built o...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I like watching
from inside, as if locked away
and stealing the distinct pleasure
...
KRISTEN HENDERSON As long as your mind has the contemplation ‘the tiger is a violent animal’, it will remain viole...
DADA BHAGWAN I will not die an unlived life.
I will not live in fear
of falling or catching fire.
...
DAWNA MARKOVA Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I'm not embarrassed ...
ANGELINA JOLIE Hypothesis: To burn and not consume.
Hypothesis: To consume and not extinguish.
DAPHNE GOTTLIEB ...The sublime feeling is not mere pleasure as taste is – it is a mixture of pleasure and pain... ...
JEAN-FRANçOIS LYOTARD Cites and Thrones and Powers
Stand in Time's eye
Which daily die;
But, as new buds pu...
RUDYARD KIPLING That was some violent, violent weather,
AL MARTIN When she emerged, Keith was watching the tiny round window of the under-the-counter washing machine....
MAUREEN JOHNSON You have known, O Gilgamesh,
What interests me,
To drink from the Well of Immortality.
HERBERT MASON sometimes i don't know, which moment
which cool gust of wind will come,
and enchant me
SANOBER KHAN And the days are all dust
and the only thing worse
than losing the trust
of a lover i...
KATE TEMPEST No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, ...
ANNIE BESANT I'll tell you a secret.
Old storytellers never die.
They disappear into their ...
VERA NAZARIAN They were getting progressively violent.
BRIAN FRIEDMAN That was some violent, violent weather. We're sitting in the clubhouse watching on TV and wondering,...
AL MARTIN Throughout the '80s, these were very violent and very massive protests against the dictatorship.
ESTEBAN MONTES Some people don't care if they live or they die.
Some people want to know what it feels like to...
PATTY GRIFFIN Volume II: Chapter 5
The God sends down his angry plagues from high,
Famine and pestilenc...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY What is this thing called life? I believe
That the earth and the stars too, and the whole glitt...
ROBINSON JEFFERS I suppose like others
I have come through fire and sword,
love gone wrong,
head-on cr...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I have been astonished that men could die martyrs
for their religion--
I have shuddered at...
JOHN KEATS I saw the sunset-colored sands,
The Nile like flowing fire between,
Where Rameses stares...
SARA TEASDALE Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.
MARILYN MANSON Ay, that I had not done a thousand more.
Even now I curse the day—and yet, I think,
Few ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
JOANNA BAILLIE Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
[...
JOHN F. KENNEDY I check the list. Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, Gladys, and my mitts.
FRANK MILLER Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score;
Then to that twenty, add a hundred more:
A thousand ...
ROBERT HERRICK Just looking at them
I grow greedy, as if they were
freshly baked loaves
waiting on t...
LINDA PASTAN I used to have the worst head jerk, my hat would fly off sometimes. That's how violent I was. It was...
MAX SCHERZER Robots are like Mars: they need
girls.
Boys won't do;
the memesoup is all wrong. The...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I wonder if it hurts to live,
And if they have to try,
And whether, could they choose betw...
EMILY DICKINSON The dove descending breaks the air
With flame of incandescent terror
Of which the tongues ...
T.S. ELIOT
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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To do a great right do a little wrong.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Listen to many, speak to a few.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This above all; to thine own self be true.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Though she be but little, she is fierce.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What's done can't be undone.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They say miracles are past.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? A...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now is the winter of our discontent.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The course of true love never did run smooth.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we hap...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits a...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Whereof whats past is prologue, what to comeIn yours and my discharge.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Things won are done, joys soul lies in the doing.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE man, proud man,Dressd in a little brief authority,
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the worlds a stage,And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their ent...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am in bloodSteppd in so far that, should I wade no more,Returning were as tedious as go oer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So farewell to the little good you bear me. Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!This is t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Had I but servd my God with half the zealI servd my king, He would not in mine ageHave left me naked...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Glendower:I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur:Why, so can I, or so can any man;But will ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. Julius Caesar
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is too young to know what conscience is.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being ve...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We that are true lovers run into strange capers.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Were't not affection chains thy tender days
To the sweet glances of thy honored love,
I rather...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In my mind's eye, Horatio.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to
trouble about whether he's happy o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Jesters do oft prove prophets
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living.
Satisfaction is death.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for tre...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How goes it now, sir? This news which is called true is so like
an old tale that the verity of it ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Master, master, old news! And such news as you never heard of!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My heart hath one poor string to stay it by,
Which holds but till thy news be uttered,
And the...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night,
Black, fearful, comfortless, and horrible.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ten day ago I drowned these news in tears;
And now, to add more measure to your woes,
I come t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
Hath but a losing office, and his tongue
Sounds ever a...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's villainous news abroad.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If't be summer news,
Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st
But keep that count'nance st...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The art of our necessities is strange, That can make vile things precious.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose
To wage against the emnity o' th' air,
To be a comra...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now we sit close about this taper here
And call in question our necessities.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When most I wink, then do my eyes best see
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So we grew together,
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition--
...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They say men are molded out of faults, and for the most, become much more the better; for being a li...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men's faults to themselves seldom appear.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and brea...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it al...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she; and she a fair divided excellence, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning;
One pain is less'ned by another's anguish;
Tur...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, s...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, what a mansion have those vices got
Which for their habitation chose out thee,
Where beauty...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Who has a book of all that monarchs do,
He's more secure to keep it shut than shown;
For vice ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity
(So it be new, there's no respect how vile)
That is...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Hoy-day!
What a sweep of vanity comes this way!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told;
Many a man his life hath sold;
...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If thou art rich, thou'rt poor,
For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows,
Thou bear'st thy...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All gold and silver rather turn to dirt,
An 'tis no better reckoned but of these
Who worship d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What, man! more water glideth by the mill
That wots the miller of; and easy it is
Of a cut lo...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner:
Honest water, which ne'er left man i' th' mire.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The people are like water and the ruler a boat. Water can
support a boat or overturn it.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For who so firm that cannot be seduced?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,
When time is broke and no proportion kept!
So is ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, call back yesterday, bid time return.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Make not your thoughts you prisons.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age Have left me...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, how thy worth with manners may I sing
When thou art all the better part of me?
What can min...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Cry havoc! and let loose the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carri...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be wise and love exceeds man's might.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Not that I have the power to clutch my hand
When his fair angels would salute by palm,
But for...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have be...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. Merchant Of Venice
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious l...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which s...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be eleven. And so from hour to...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Good-morrow to thee; welcome:
Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge:
To business...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overst...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A politician is one that would circumvent God.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft int...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on natur...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. Hamlet
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Knowledge is the wing whereby we fly to Heaven.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet do I fear thy nature.
It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest wa...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have you the heart? When your head did but ache,
I knit my handkercher about your brows--
The...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A little more than kin, and less than kind!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But jealous souls will not be answered so;
They are not ever jealous for the cause,
But jealou...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock
The meat it fee...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I do beseech you--
Though I perchance am vicious in my guess
(As I confess it is my nature's p...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that
supplants us all in the long run.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I shall be condemned
Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else
But what your jealousies awake...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to com...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My plenteous joys,
Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet 'tis greater skill
In a true hate to pray they have their will;
The very devils cannot pla...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How use doth breed a habit in a man!
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
I better brook t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We were not born to sue, but to command.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE