William Shakespeare Quotes

English playwright, poet, actor

That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence. It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover. Love that well which thou must leave ere long. What's done is done. The joy is in the doing. Thus may poor fools Belive false teachers. A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame. How poor are they that have have not patients. For a noble heart, the most precious gift becomes poor, when the giver stops loving. Love does not see with the eyes, but with the soul. Sweets grown common lose their dear delight. I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep. O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast. Take but degree away, untune that string, and hark, what discord follows! Thyself shall see the act; For, as thou urgest justice, be assured Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desir'st. A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief? He that plays the king shall be welcome- his Majesty shall<br />have tribute of me; the adventurous knight shall use his foil and<br />target; the lover shall not sigh gratis; the humorous man shall<br />end his part in peace; the clown shall make those laugh whose<br />lungs are tickle o' th' sere; and the lady shall say her mind<br />freely, or the blank verse shall halt fort. What's more to do,<br />Which would be planted newly with the time,<br />As calling home our exiled friends abroad<br />That fled the snares of watchful tyranny,<br />Producing forth the cruel ministers<br />Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen,<br />Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands<br />Took off her life; this, and what needful else<br />That calls upon us, by the grace of Grace<br />We will perform in measure, time, and place. O King, believe not this hard-hearted man! This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-Paradise. Titus Andronicus, my lord the Emperor<br />Sends thee this word, that, if thou love thy sons,<br />Let Marcus, Lucius, or thyself, old Titus,<br />Or any one of you, chop off your hand<br />And send it to the King: he for the same<br />Will send thee hither both thy sons alive,<br />And that shall be the ransom for their fault. Strong reasons make strong actions let us go If you say ay, the king will not say no. This sleep is sound indeed; this is a sleep<br />That from this golden rigol hath divorc'd<br />So many English kings. An earnest conjuration from the King,<br />As England was his faithful tributary,<br />As love between them like the palm might flourish,<br />As peace should still her wheaten garland wear<br />And stand a comma 'tween their amities,<br />And many such-like as's of great charge,<br />That, on the view and knowing of these contents,<br />Without debatement further, more or less,<br />He should the bearers put to sudden death,<br />Not shriving time allow'd. If you be King, why should not I succeed? Besides, our nearness to the King in love<br />Is near the hate of those love not the King. There's such divinity doth hedge a king. That treason doth but peep to what it would. Flesh and blood,<br />You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition,<br />Expell'd remorse and nature, who, with Sebastian-<br />Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong-<br />Would here have kill'd your king, I do forgive thee,<br />Unnatural though thou art. Let us our lives, our souls,<br />Our debts, our careful wives,<br />Our children, and our sins, lay on the King! Give it an understanding, but no tongue. I am asham'd that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace.

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