Quotes
Quotes - Shakespeare
I would the gods had made thee poetical.
Down on your knees,
And thank Heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.
It is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness.
I have gained my experience.
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad.
I will scarce think you have swam in a gondola.
I 'll warrant him heart-whole.
Good orators, when they are out, they will spit.
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them,--but not for love.
Can one desire too much of a good thing?
For ever and a day.
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
The horn, the horn, the lusty horn
Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.
Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.
It is meat and drink to me.
"So so" is good, very good, very excellent good; and yet it is not; it is but so so.
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways.
No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy.
How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!
Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.
An ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own.
Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.
The Retort Courteous;... the Quip Modest;... the Reply Churlish;... the Reproof Valiant;... the Countercheck Quarrelsome;... the Lie with Circumstance;... the Lie Direct.
Your If is the only peacemaker; much virtue in If.
