Quotes from William Shakespeare

He wears the rose Of youth upon him.

Silence is the herald of joy

Small herbs have grace, great weeds to grow apace.

Tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

silence is not a langauge, its a weapon to make your dear one to feel

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

Nothing can come of nothing.

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

So every bondman in his own hand bears The power to cancel his captivity.

The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.

Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.

Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light.

The eagle suffers little birds to sing.

Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce!

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye

You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant; But yet you draw not iron, for my heart Is true as steel: leave you your power to draw, And I shall have no power to follow you.

Greatness knows itself.

If ever (as that ever may be near) you meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy, then shall you know the wounds invisible that love's keen, arrows make.

I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.