Quotes from William Shakespeare

An angel! or, if not,An earthly paragon!

And art made tongue-tied by authority.

He is come to openThe purple testament of bleeding war.

But in the gross and scope of my opinion,This bodes some strange eruption to our state.

And in such indexes, although small pricksTo their subsequent volumes, there is seenThe baby figure of the giant massOf things to come.

Things without all remedyShould be without regard: what's done is done.

It keeps on the windy side of care.

I am not in the giving vein today.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing,And like enough thou know'st thy estimate.

I must become a borrower of the nightFor a dark hour or twain.

Some craven scrupleOf thinking too precisely on the event.

I have a good eye, uncle: I can see a church by daylight.

That would hang us, every mother's son.

So we grew together,Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,But yet an union in partition;Two lovely berries molded on one stem.

What! my dear Lady Disdain, are you yet living?

Beauty, wit,High birth, vigor of bone, desert in service,Love, friendship, charity, are subjects allTo envious and calumniating time.One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

He is well paid that is well satisfied.

We must not make a scarecrow of the law,Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,And let it keep one shape, till custom make itTheir perch and not their terror.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.

An honorable murderer, if you will;For nought I did in hate, but all in honor.

A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?

I am one, my liege,Whom the vile blows and buffets of the worldHave so incens'd that I am reckless whatI do to spite the world.

All's well that ends well: still the fine's the crown;Whate'er the course, the end is the renown.