Quotes from William Shakespeare

Thou lily-liver'd boy.

But I have that within which passeth show;These but the trappings and the suits of woe.

Bassanio: Do all men kill the things they do not love?Shylock: Hates any man the thing he would not kill?

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

Now o'er the one half-worldNature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuseThe curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebratesPale Hecate's offerings.

Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and, when you have them, they are not worth the search.

O mistress mine! where are you roaming?

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me;For now hath time made me his numbering clock:My thoughts are minutes.

Live to be the show and gaze o' the time.

Sweet, sweet, sweet poison for the age's tooth.

Now might I do it pat, now he is praying;And now I'll do 't: and so he goes to heaven;And so I am reveng'd.

This news is old enough, yet it is every day's news.

Out-paramoured the Turk.

I am in bloodStepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more,Returning were as tedious as go o'er.

Come unto these yellow sands,And then take hands:Curtsied when you have, and kiss'd—The wild waves whist,—Foot it featly here and there.

Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs,To make a hazard of new fortunes here.

A goodly apple rotten at the heart.O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

We have done but greenly,In hugger-mugger to inter him.

Alas, how love can trifle with itself!

Take note, take note, O world!To be direct and honest is not safe.

For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase...

If thou and nature can so gently part,The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch,Which hurts, and is desir'd.

A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they say, When the age is in, the wit is out.

Lear: Dost thou know me, fellow?Kent: No, sir, but you have that in your countenance which I would fain call master.Lear: What's that?Kent: Authority.