Quotes from William Shakespeare

Fairies, black, grey, green, and white, You moonshine revellers, and shades of night, You orphan heirs of fixed destiny, Attend your office and your quality.

But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live.

Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.

And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.

Who can control his fate?

I have a bone to pick with Fate

There is a divinity that shapes our ends Rough-hew them how we will.

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven

Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity.

But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike.

Glory is like a circle in the water

Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. O that estates, degrees, and offices Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer!

Why, this hath not a finger's dignity.

My crown is in my heart, not on my head.

Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.

Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.

Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

Still constant is a wondrous excellence.

Experience is by industry achieved, And perfected by the swift course of time.

With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.

Experience teacheth that resolution is a sole help in need.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.