William Shakespeare: Trending quotes (page 15)

“Parting is such sweet sorrow”

“Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.”

“Glendower: I can call the spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come, when you do call for them?”

“I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table." Macbeth”

“I have a soul of lead
So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.”

“O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, That he hath turn'd a heaven unto a hell!”

“Can I go forward when my heart is here?”

“We will meet; and there we may rehearse most
obscenely and courageously.

Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream. Spoken by Bottom, Act I Sc. 2”

“He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.”

“The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”

“We came into the world like brother and brother,
And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.”

“Captain of our fairy band,
Helena is here at hand,
And the youth, mistook by me,
Pleading for a lover's fee.
Shall we their fond pageant see?
Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

“O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!”

“How low am I, thou painted maypole?
(Hermia to Helena)”

“He kills her in her own humor.”

“You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!”

“What win I if I gain the thing I seek?
A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy.
Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week?
Or sells eternity to get a toy?”

“I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that will put me in trust: to love him that is honest; to converse with him that is wise, and says little; to fear judgment; to fight when I cannot choose; and to eat no fish.”

“Nothing can come of nothing.”