May Quotes by William Shakespeare · Page 5

I have thrust myself into this maze, Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.

— William Shakespeare

All the contagion of the south light on you, You shames of Rome! you herd of--boils and plagues Plaster you o'er; that…

— William Shakespeare

When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will

— William Shakespeare

Don Pedro - (...)'In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.' Benedick - The savage bull may, but if ever the…

— William Shakespeare

Be advised; Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself: we may outrun, By violent swiftness,…

— William Shakespeare

If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me.

— William Shakespeare

You may my Glories and my State depose, But not my Griefes; still am I King of those.

— William Shakespeare

So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and…

— William Shakespeare

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by…

— William Shakespeare

It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never…

— William Shakespeare

It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery:…

— William Shakespeare

Then happy I that love and am beloved, where I may not remove nor be removed.

— William Shakespeare

We may outrun By violent swiftness And lose by over-running.

— William Shakespeare

Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.

— William Shakespeare

To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what…

— William Shakespeare

And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, "It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the…

— William Shakespeare

For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have.

— William Shakespeare

For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. Urchins Shall forth at vast of…

— William Shakespeare

But since the affairs of men rests still incertain, Let's reason with the worst that may befall.

— William Shakespeare

Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear,…

— William Shakespeare

A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!

— William Shakespeare

Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, bear t that th' opposed may beware of thee.

— William Shakespeare

At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that…

— William Shakespeare

We cannot fight for love, as men may do; we shou'd be woo'd, and were not made to woo

— William Shakespeare

Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.

— William Shakespeare