Quotes from William Shakespeare

What though the mast be now blown overboard,The cable broke, the holding anchor lost,And half our sailors swallow'd in the flood?Yet lives our pilot still.

I understand thy kisses and thou mine,And that's a feeling disputation.

From you have I been absent in the spring,When proud-pied April, dress'd in all his trim,Hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

As sweet and musicalAs bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair;And when Love speaks, the voice of all the godsMakes heaven drowsy with the harmony.

You take my house when you do take the propThat doth sustain my house; you take my lifeWhen you do take the means whereby I live.

Give it an understanding, but no tongue.

It [drink] provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.

Edgar—[Enter Edgar]and pat he comes, like the catastrophe of the old comedy: my cue is villainous melancholy, with a sigh like Tom o' Bedlam.

Hamlet: His beard was grizzled, no?Horatio: It was, as I have seen it in his life,A sable silver'd.

Two loves I have of comfort and despair,Which like two spirits do suggest me still.

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.

Nor time nor placeDid then adhere.

Every why hath a wherefore.

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood:Stones have been known to move and trees to speak.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

I wish you joy of the worm.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad.

This was the noblest Roman of them all.

Iago: To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.Desdemona: O most lame and impotent conclusion!

For where is any author in the worldTeaches such beauty as a woman's eye?Learning is but an adjunct to ourself.

Some there be that shadows kiss;Such have but a shadow's bliss.

She that herself will sliver and disbranchFrom her material sap, perforce must witherAnd come to deadly use.

A merrier man,Within the limit of becoming mirth,I never spent an hour's talk withal.

Unkindness may do much;And his unkindness may defeat my life,But never taint my love.