Quotes from William Shakespeare

In the porches of mine ears.

We have seen better days.

Cloud-kissing Ilion.

You are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you.

The lowest and most dejected thing of fortune.

Eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.

The earth hath bubbles, as the water has,And these are of them.

From fairest creatures we desire increase,That thereby beauty's rose might never die.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;Or close the wall up with our English dead!In peace there's nothing so becomes a manAs modest stillness and humility:But when the blast of war blows in our ears,Then imitate the action of the tiger;Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,Disguise fair nature with hard-favor'd rage;Then lend the eye a terrible aspect.

I know the disciplines of wars.

Before thy hour be ripe.

In my mind's eye, Horatio.

Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch;Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth;Between two blades, which bears the better temper;Between two horses, which doth bear him best;Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye;I have perhaps, some shallow spirit of judgment;But in these nice sharp quillets of the law,Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw.

I am falser than vows made in wine.

They that have power to hurt and will do none,That do not do the thing they most do show,Who, moving others, are themselves as stone,Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow.

By and by is easily said.

That is my home of love: if I have rang'd,Like him that travels, I return again.

Flat burglary as ever was committed.

Some griefs are med'cinable.

His face is the worst thing about him.

How all occasions do inform against me,And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,If his chief good and market of his timeBe but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.Sure he that made us with such large discourse,Looking before and after, gave us notThat capability and godlike reasonTo fust in us unus'd.

There's no time for a man to recover his hair that grows bald by nature.

Things sweet the taste prove in digestion sour.

The choice and master spirits of this age.