William Shakespeare: Trending quotes (page 25)

“It is not, nor it cannot, come to good,
But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.”

“Good wombs have borne bad sons."
-- (Miranda, I:2)”

“You may my glories and my state depose,
But not my griefs; still am I king of those.”

“What a fool honesty is.”

“Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books,
But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.”

“O, let me kiss that hand!

KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.”

“He that is strucken blind can not forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost.”

“Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires: The eyes wink at the hand; yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see”

“O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love!”

“You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.”

“Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.”

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

“But I am constant as the Northern Star,
Of whose true fixed and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.”

“There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow.”

“One pain is lessened by another’s anguish…. Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.”

“I hold my peace, sir? no;
No, I will speak as liberal as the north;
Let heaven and men and devils, let them all,
All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.”

“Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania”

“This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.”

“Alas, that love, so gentle in his view,
Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!

*It’s sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it’s actually very rough when you experience it.”