William Shakespeare

Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure.

— William Shakespeare

O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! (HAMLET)

— William Shakespeare

The fool multitude, that choose by show, not learning more than the fond eye doth teach.

— William Shakespeare

I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently.

— William Shakespeare

The glowworm shows the matin to be near And gins to pale his uneffectual fire.

— William Shakespeare

The unruly waywardness thatinfirm and choleric years bring with them.

— William Shakespeare

Thou ever young, fresh, lov'd, and delicate wooer, whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow

— William Shakespeare

Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye.

— William Shakespeare

“What cannot be preserved when fortune takes Patience her injury a mock'ry makes. The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.…

— William Shakespeare

O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!

— William Shakespeare

“Let not light see my black and deep desires. They eye wink at the hand, yet let that be which the eye…

— William Shakespeare

Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires: The eyes wink at the hand; yet let that…

— William Shakespeare

Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare, To digg the dust encloased heare! Blest be the man that spares thes stones, And curst…

— William Shakespeare

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised…

— William Shakespeare

Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it…

— William Shakespeare

We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up…

— William Shakespeare

Tidings do I bring, and lucky joys, And golden times, and happy news of price

— William Shakespeare

“When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?”

— William Shakespeare

For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life’s but breath, to trust it error.

— William Shakespeare

Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.

— William Shakespeare

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

— William Shakespeare

God, the best maker of all marriages, Combine your hearts into one.

— William Shakespeare

Look, what a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on his back.

— William Shakespeare

A thousand kisses buys my heart from me; And pay them at thy leisure, one by one.

— William Shakespeare

“My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil drives.”

— William Shakespeare

We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.

— William Shakespeare

Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden.

— William Shakespeare

Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born, To signify thou camest to bite the world.

— William Shakespeare

A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.

— William Shakespeare

We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.

— William Shakespeare

Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.

— William Shakespeare

Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the Dark.

— William Shakespeare

“My lord, wise men ne’er wail their present woes, But presently prevent the ways to wail.174”

— William Shakespeare

Some there be that shadows kiss; Such have but a shadow's bliss.

— William Shakespeare

“Therefore I lie with her and she with me, And in our faults by lies we flatter'd be.”

— William Shakespeare

My love is deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, both are infinite.

— William Shakespeare

“Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughest day.”

— William Shakespeare

Under your good correction, Ihave seen When, after execution, judgment hath Repented o'er his doom.

— William Shakespeare

Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first.

— William Shakespeare

“O that I were a mockery king of snow Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke To melt myself away in water drops!”

— William Shakespeare