“This is the very ecstasy of love, Whose violent property fordoes itself And leads the will to desperate undertakings As oft as… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities: For nought so vile that on… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
With this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Macbeth to Witches: What are these So wither'd and so wild in their attire, That look not like th' inhabitants o' th'… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“What should such fellows as I do crawling between heaven and earth?” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of love, with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin, That all with one consent praise new-born gauds, Though they are made and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In the corrupted currents of this word offence's gilded hand may solve by justice, and oft, tis seen the wicked prize itself… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Feared by their breed and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me: but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The merciless Macdonald (Worthy to be a rebel, — for, to that, The multiplying villainies of nature Do swarm upon him) from… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Is it but this,—a tardiness in nature Which often leaves the history unspoke That it intends to do? My lord of Burgundy,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep’st so sound. Julius Caesar (2.1.248-251)” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Have you not heard it said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for naught? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image