William Shakespeare: Trending quotes (page 13)

“You are not worth the dust which the rude wind blows in your face”

“Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood.”

“Love is not love
Which alters when alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
Oh, no, it is an ever-fixèd mark,
that looks on tempests and is never shaken.”

“Let life be short, else shame will be too long.”

“Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth”

“What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no.”

“I have drunk and seen the spider.”

“Thou shalt be free
As mountain winds: but then exactly do
All points of my command.”

“More fools know Jack Fool than Jack Fool knows.”

“But she makes hungry
Where she most satisfies…”

“In such business
Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th’ ignorant
More learned than the ears.”

“And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betray's
In deepest consequence”

“Hang there like a fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!

-Posthumus Leonatus
Act V, Scene V”

“His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it.”

“I understand a fury in your words
But not your words.”

“I have no way and therefore want no eyes
I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen
our means secure us, and our mere defects
prove our commodities.”

“I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.”

“Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.”

“Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues."

[Stage direction, ]”