Quotes from William Shakespeare

Divinely bent to meditation; And in no worldly suits would he be mov'd, To draw him from his holy exercise.

He is divinely bent on meditation.

What think you, if he were conveyed to bed, Wrapped in sweet clothes, rings put upon his fingers, A most delicious banquet by his bed, And brave attendants near him when he wakes, Would not the beggar then forget himself?

A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet.

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

Affection is a coal that must be cooled; Else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire.

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players.

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.

I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world

The best safety lies in fear.

Who can cloy the hungry edge of appetite?

The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.

Women's weapon, water-drops

... the spring, the summer, The chilling autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world By their increase, now knows not which is which.

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

Good wine needs no bush.

Had I but died an hour before this chance I had lived a blessed time; for, from this instant,There's nothing serious in mortality, All is but toys; renown and grace is dead, The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.

Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used; exclaim no more against it.

Give me a bowl of wine, In this I bury all unkindness.

They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

Wishers were ever fools

But when they seldom come, they wished for come.