Quotes from William Shakespeare

So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate.

Beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.

Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.

Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty's brow.

What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion.

What else may hap, to time I will commit.

The time of universal peace is near. Prove this a prosp'rous day, the three-nooked world Shall bear the olive freely.

Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty.

The iron tongue of Midnight hath told twelve lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time. I fear we shall outstep the coming morn as much as we this night over-watch'd.

Love does not see with the eyes, but with the soul.

Pray, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts.

The wheel is come full circle.

A pair of star-crossed lovers.

O, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable

Love is the greatest of dreams, yet the worst of nightmares.

These words are razors to my wounded heart.

There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark

You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound.

When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.

Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord. Hamlet: As woman's love.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see