Quotes from William Shakespeare

Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man?

Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,Unhousel'd, disappointed, unanel'd,No reckoning made, but sent to my accountWith all my imperfections on my head.

You do as chapmen do,Dispraise the thing that you desire to buy.

Malcolm: Dispute it like a man.Macduff: I shall do so;But I must also feel it as a man:I cannot but remember such things were,That were most precious to me.

For this relief much thanks; 'tis bitter cold,And I am sick at heart.

All hell shall stir for this.

Shut upIn measureless content.

A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't.

Well then, once in my days I'll be a madcap.

False as dicers' oaths.

Bid them wash their faces,And keep their teeth clean.

Let not women's weapons, waterdrops,Stain my man's cheeks!

A harmless necessary cat.

I have an exposition of sleep come upon me.

Women speak two languages — one of which is verbal.

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.All men make faults.

A load would sink a navy.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft thereWhere most it promises.

Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted;Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden.

Thus sometimes hath the brightest Day a Cloud; And after Summer, evermore succeeds Barren Winter, with his wrathful nipping Cold...

For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger; At whose approach ghosts wandring here and there Troop home to church-yards.... For fear lest day should look their shames upon, They willfully exile themselves from light, And must for aye consort with black brow'd night.

Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio.

And smooth as monumental alabaster.