Filter quotes by topic
Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
“The best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed by those that feel their sharpness.”
“I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours.”
“Abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate.”
“Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.”
“I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world”
“No particular scandal one can touch but it confounds the breather.”
“You know That I do fawn on men, and hug them hard, And after scandal them.”
“Two may keep counsel putting one away!”
“Some there be that shadows kiss; Such have but a shadow's bliss.”
“O shame, where is thy blush?”
“My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend, And nothing brings me all things.”
“Base is the slave that pays.”
“This world to me is like a lasting storm,Whirring me from my friends.”
“When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall then winter is at hand.”
“Robust grass endures mighty winds; loyal ministers emerge through ordeal.”
“Against self-slaughter There is a prohibition so divine That cravens my weak hand.”
“Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.”
“Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing.”
“Great men should drink with harness on their throats.”
“Do not give dalliance too much rein; the strongest oaths are straw to the fire in the blood.”
“I cannot, nor I will not hold me still; My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.”
“To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm.”
“And either victory, or else a grave.”
“A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd, Quoted, and sign'd, to do a deed of shame.”
“Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves.”