William Shakespeare: Trending quotes (page 19)

“Watch out he's winding the watch of his wit, by and by it will strike.”

“I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot;
Follow your spirit: and upon this charge,
Cry — God for Harry! England and Saint George!”

“But, indeed, words are very rascals, since bonds [vows] disgraced them."
Viola: "Thy reason, man?"
Feste: "Troth [Truthfully], sir, I can yield you none without words, and words are grown so false, I am loathe to prove reason with them.”

“Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe”

“As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer.”

“Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom:
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved”

“You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate
As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize
As the dead carcasses of unburied men
That do corrupt my air, I banish you;
And here remain with your uncertainty!”

“Sometimes when we are labeled, when we are branded our brand becomes our calling.”

“The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.”

“If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.”

“At this hour
Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.”

“When the
mind's free,
The Body's delicate.”

“Done to death by slanderous tongue”

“And what’s he then that says I play the villain?”

“Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.”

“Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream—For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause, there's the respect, That makes calamity of so long life”

“A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.”

“What, you egg?”

“There is a world elsewhere.”