William Shakespeare

How hard it is for women to keep counsel!

— William Shakespeare

Beggars mounted run their horses to death.

— William Shakespeare

I will praise any man that will praise me.

— William Shakespeare

Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?

— William Shakespeare

Past all shame, so past all truth.

— William Shakespeare

What need the bridge much broader than the flood?

— William Shakespeare

Art made tongue-tied by authority.

— William Shakespeare

There is little choice in a barrel of rotten apples.

— William Shakespeare

The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to.

— William Shakespeare

How can tyrants safely govern home, Unless abroad they purchase great alliance.

— William Shakespeare

Never was monarch better feared and loved Than is your Majesty.

— William Shakespeare

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. We are advertis'd by our loving friends.

— William Shakespeare

Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending.

— William Shakespeare

There's such divinity doth hedge a king. That treason doth but peep to what it would.

— William Shakespeare

Good with out evil is like light with out darkness which in turn is like righteousness whith out hope.

— William Shakespeare

A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of…

— William Shakespeare

Foul fiend of France and hag of all despite, Encompassed with thy lustful paramours, Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age…

— William Shakespeare

Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost…

— William Shakespeare

Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to…

— William Shakespeare

Blest are those Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound…

— William Shakespeare

I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day When every goose is cackling,would be thought No better a musician than…

— William Shakespeare

“Albeit unusèd to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinal gum. Set you down this; And…

— William Shakespeare

“Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world; now could…

— William Shakespeare

Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affection, Figures pedantical--these summer flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.

— William Shakespeare

“All things that we ordained festival, Turn from their office to black funeral; Our instruments to melancholy bells, Our wedding cheer to…

— William Shakespeare

you saw her fair, none else being by, Herself pois'd with herself in either eye; But in that crystal scales let there…

— William Shakespeare

How long a time lies in one little word?

— William Shakespeare

There's no better sign of a brave mind than a hard hand.

— William Shakespeare

Some falls the means are happier to rise.

— William Shakespeare

I have pursued her, as love hath pursued me

— William Shakespeare

The present eye praises the present object.

— William Shakespeare

A little water clears us of this deed.

— William Shakespeare

“There is flattery in friendship - William Shakespeare”

— William Shakespeare

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

— William Shakespeare

And nature must obey necessity.

— William Shakespeare

As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown.

— William Shakespeare

We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.

— William Shakespeare

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

— William Shakespeare

Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds.

— William Shakespeare

The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.

— William Shakespeare