Quotes from William Shakespeare

Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but love.

Be bloody bold and resolute.

At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.

Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent.

O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.

The world must be peopled!

Tis safter to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.

The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious.

Eternity was in our lips and eyes.

I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul.

And what's he then that says I play the villain?

I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot; Follow your spirit: and upon this charge, Cry — God for Harry! England and Saint George!

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots and wonders At out quaint spirits.

We came into the world like brother and brother, And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.

Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.

I understand a fury in your words But not your words.

She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.

Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.

Under the greenwood tree, Who loves to lie with me And tune his merry note, Unto the sweet bird's throat; Come hither, come hither, come hither. Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather.

You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize As the dead carcasses of unburied men That do corrupt my air, I banish you; And here remain with your uncertainty!

And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.

The grief that does not speak whispers the o'erfraught heart and bids it break.

My stars shine darkly over me