Quotes from William Shakespeare

Be not afraid of greatness.

Life's uncertain voyage.

Heaven - the treasury of everlasting life.

Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.

My desolation does begin to make A better life.

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops." Hope tinged with melancholy - like life.

I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely.

You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live.

Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin's fee.

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

Death is a fearful thing.

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.

For 'tis the sport to have the engineerHoist with his own petard.

Misery makes sport to mock itself.

When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport, But creep in crannies when he hides his beams.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.

O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.

When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, gives in your weakness strength unto your foe.

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.