William Shakespeare: Likeness (page 2)

“Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.”

“Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.”

“Good with out evil is like light with out darkness which in turn is like righteousness whith out hope.”

“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!”

“Nothing in his life became him like leaving it.”

“Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff;
Life and these lips have long been separated:
Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.”

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

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

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

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

“Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven;
Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads
And recks not his own read.”

“All of Creation’s a farce.
Man was born as a joke.
In his head his reason is buffeted
Like wind-blown smoke.
Life is a game.
Everyone ridicules everyone else.
But he who has the last laugh
Laughs longest.”

“Hang there like a fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!

-Posthumus Leonatus
Act V, Scene V”

“It is my soul that calls upon my name;
How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night,
like softest music to attending ears!
-Romeo”

“The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,
Burnt on the water.”

“What a piece of work is a man!
How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty!
In form and moving how express and admirable!
In action how like an angel,
in apprehension how like a god!”