Quotes from William Shakespeare

A little pot and soon hot.

This sweaty hasteDoth make the night joint-laborer with the day.

I have peppered two of them…. I tell thee what, Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse.

Eye of newt, and toe of frog,Wool of bat, and tongue of dog.

We'll have a swashing and a martial outside,As many other mannish cowards have.

I thank you for your voices, thank you,Your most sweet voices.

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up,But to support him after.

The air bites shrewdly.

All places that the eye of heaven visitsAre to a wise man ports and happy havens.Teach thy necessity to reason thus;There is no virtue like necessity.Think not the king did banish thee,But thou the king.

How all the other passions fleet to air,As doubtful thoughts, and rash-embrac'd despair,And shuddering fear, and green-ey'd jealousy.

Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness.

Patch griefs with proverbs.

But this denoted a foregone conclusion.

Here are a few of the unpleasant'st wordsThat ever blotted paper.

In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft,I shot his fellow of the selfsame flightThe selfsame way with more advised watch,To find the other forth, and by adventuring both,I oft found both.

Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;To lie in cold obstruction and to rot;This sensible warm motion to becomeA kneaded clod; and the delighted spiritTo bathe in fiery floods, or to resideIn thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice;To be imprison'd in the viewless winds,And blown with restless violence round aboutThe pendant world.

It goes much against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd?

Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air,The extravagant and erring spirit hiesTo his confine.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

Old fashions please me best.

How long a time lies in one little word!

The weakest kind of fruitDrops earliest to the ground.

I do know of these,That therefore only are reputed wiseFor saying nothing.

Stemming it with hearts of controversy.