William Shakespeare: Trending quotes (page 16)

“Still it cried ‘Sleep no more!’ to all the house: ‘Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more,—Macbeth shall sleep no more!”

“For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel:
Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him!
This was the most unkindest cut of all”

“He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear
His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear:
And you all know, security
Is mortals' chiefest enemy.”

“How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank
Here we will sit, and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears; soft stillness, and the night
Become the touches of sweet harmony”

“She gave me for my pains a world of sighs.”

“Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I wasted time and now doth time waste me.”

“Truly thou art damned, like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side.”

“They say best men are molded out of faults,
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad”

“When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?”

“These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder.”

“Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy:
This wide and universal theatre
Presents more woeful pageants than the scene
Wherein we play in.”

“Screw your courage to the sticking-place”

“Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.”

“Hamlet: Lady, shall I lie in your lap?
Ophelia: No, my lord.
Hamlet: DId you think I meant country matters?
Ophelia: I think nothing, my lord.
Hamlet: That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs.
Ophelia: What is, my lord?
Hamlet: Nothing.”

“I will make thee think thy swan a crow.”

“Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I will depart unkissed.”

“Blind is his love and best befits the dark- Benvolio (in Romeo and Juliet)”

“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”

“My affection hath an unknown bottom, like the Bay of Portugal.”