Quotes from William Shakespeare

Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand, Blood and revenge are hammering in my head

He that is strucken blind can not forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost.

It is not, nor it cannot, come to good, But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.

Mark it, nuncle. Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest, Ride more than thou goest, Learn more than thou trowest, Set less than thou throwest, Leave thy drink and thy whore And keep in-a-door, And thou shalt have more Than two tens to a score.

If we should fail? Lady Macbeth: We fail? But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.

It is my lady. O, it is my love! O, that she knew she were! She speaks, yet she says nothing. What of that? Her eye discourses; I will answer it. I am too bold. 'Tis not to me she speaks. Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return. What if her eyes were there, they in her head? The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars

Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.

Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.

Neither a borrower, nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true,   85 And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Farewell; my blessing season this in thee!

By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.

There is a world elsewhere.

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.

And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.

The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children.

God shall be my hope, my stay, my guide and lantern to my feet.

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.

It is excellent To have a giant's strength But it is tyrannous To use it like a giant

Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.

As he was valiant, I honor him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.