William Shakespeare: Trending quotes (page 30)

“Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.”

“I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.”

“Banish'd from [those we love] Is self from self: a deadly banishment!”

“What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?

Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath
such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?”

“But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.”

“The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?”

“This thing of darkness I
Acknowledge mine.”

“My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.”

“Sweet are the uses of adversity
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.”

“You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.”

“Out, damned spot! out, I say!”

“Thought is free.”

“Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better.”

“His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!”

“Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow… a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

“turn him into stars and form a constellation in his image. His face will make the heavens so beautiful that the world will fall in love with the night and forget about the garish sun.”

“When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.”

“Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.”

“Thus I die. Thus, thus, thus.
Now I am dead,
Now I am fled,
My soul is in the sky.
Tongue, lose thy light.
Moon take thy flight.
Now die, die, die, die.”