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Love29 quotes
My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep. The more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite. — William Shakespeare · 1597My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red...
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound. — William Shakespeare · 1609Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. — William Shakespeare · 1593Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. — William Shakespeare · 1600If music be the food of love, play on.
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken and so die. — William Shakespeare · 1602But miserable most, to love unloved?
This you should pity rather than despise. — William Shakespeare · 1599All 29 quotes →The human condition11 quotes
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable; in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god: the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals-And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? — William Shakespeare · 1616There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries. — William Shakespeare · 1599Time’s the king of men.
He’s both their parent, and he is their grave,
And gives them what he will, not what they crave. — William Shakespeare · 1608And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe,
And then from hour to hour we rot and rot,
And thereby hangs a tale. — William Shakespeare · 1616The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep. — William Shakespeare · 1616Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end. — William Shakespeare · 1609All 11 quotes →Nature of love7 quotes
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. — William Shakespeare · 1593Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom. — William Shakespeare · 1609Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies.
Love is all truth, Lust full of forgèd lies. — William Shakespeare · 1593The course of true love never did run smooth. — William Shakespeare · 1599Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O, no, it is an ever-fixed mark. — William Shakespeare · 1609Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind;
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. — William Shakespeare · 1599All 7 quotes →Suffering7 quotes
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. — William Shakespeare · 1616When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions. — William Shakespeare · 1616It easeth some, though none it ever cur'd,
To think their dolour others have endur'd. — William Shakespeare · 1594Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. — George Eliot · 1859Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopped,
Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is. — William Shakespeare · 1594Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining. — William Shakespeare · 1594All 7 quotes →Women7 quotes
Frailty, thy name is woman! — William Shakespeare · 1616Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety. — William Shakespeare · 1607Though she be but little, she is fierce. — William Shakespeare · 1599A woman can hardly ever choose...she is dependent on what happens to her. She must take meaner things, because only meaner things are within her reach. — George Eliot · 1866She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed;
She is a woman, therefore to be won. — William Shakespeare · 1592From women’s eyes this doctrine I derive.
They sparkle still the right Promethean fire.
They are the books, the arts, the academes
That show, contain, and nourish all the world. — William Shakespeare · 1597All 7 quotes →Appearance vs. reality6 quotes
I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night. — William Shakespeare · 1609Was ever book containing such vile matter
So fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwell
In such a gorgeous palace! — William Shakespeare · 1597He takes false shadows for true substances. — William Shakespeare · 1594All that glisters is not gold—
Often have you heard that told. — William Shakespeare · 1598Ornament is but the guilèd shore
To a most dangerous sea. — William Shakespeare · 1598O, what may man within him hide,
Though angel on the outward side! — William Shakespeare · 1616Death6 quotes
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once. — William Shakespeare · 1599Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death
Ere death dare come to us? — William Shakespeare · 1607He that dies pays all debts. — William Shakespeare · 1616The undiscovered country from whose bourn
No traveler returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of? — William Shakespeare · 1616The sense of death is most in apprehension,
And the poor beetle that we tread upon
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
As when a giant dies. — William Shakespeare · 1616Men must endure
Their going hence even as their coming hither.
Ripeness is all. — William Shakespeare · 1606Fate6 quotes
Men at some time are masters of their fates.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings. — William Shakespeare · 1599Time’s the king of men.
He’s both their parent, and he is their grave,
And gives them what he will, not what they crave. — William Shakespeare · 1608Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie
Which we ascribe to heaven. — William Shakespeare · 1616There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will. — William Shakespeare · 1616Let Hercules himself do what he may,
The cat will mew, and dog will have his day. — William Shakespeare · 1616What Fates impose, that men must needs abide;
It boots not to resist both wind and tide. — William Shakespeare · 1595Relationships6 quotes
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never. — William Shakespeare · 1600A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. — George Eliot · 1876He is the half part of a blessèd man,
Left to be finishèd by such as she,
And she a fair divided excellence,
Whose fullness of perfection lies in him. — William Shakespeare · 1616If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more content. — William Shakespeare · 1602When love begins to sicken and decay
It useth an enforcèd ceremony. — William Shakespeare · 1599And ruined love, when it is built anew,
Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater. — William Shakespeare · 1609Time6 quotes
The whirligig of time brings in his revenges. — William Shakespeare · 1602Time’s the king of men.
He’s both their parent, and he is their grave,
And gives them what he will, not what they crave. — William Shakespeare · 1608I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. — William Shakespeare · 1595Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end. — William Shakespeare · 1609Nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defense. — William Shakespeare · 1609Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining. — William Shakespeare · 1594Fortune5 quotes
There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries. — William Shakespeare · 1599Fortune, that arrant whore,
Ne’er turns the key to th’ poor. — William Shakespeare · 1606O Fortune, Fortune, all men call thee fickle. — William Shakespeare · 1597Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. — William Shakespeare · 1611Though Fortune’s malice overthrow my state,
My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel. — William Shakespeare · 1595Honesty5 quotes
While you live, tell truth and shame the devil! — William Shakespeare · 1597Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance. — William Shakespeare · 1611Be it art or hap,
He hath spoken true. — William Shakespeare · 1607Against my soul's pure truth why labor you
To make it wander in an unknown field? — William Shakespeare · 1594Men should be what they seem. — William Shakespeare · 1604Looks are deceiving5 quotes
I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night. — William Shakespeare · 1609Was ever book containing such vile matter
So fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwell
In such a gorgeous palace! — William Shakespeare · 1597All that glisters is not gold—
Often have you heard that told. — William Shakespeare · 1598Ornament is but the guilèd shore
To a most dangerous sea. — William Shakespeare · 1598O, what may man within him hide,
Though angel on the outward side! — William Shakespeare · 1616Men and women5 quotes
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never. — William Shakespeare · 1600He is the half part of a blessèd man,
Left to be finishèd by such as she,
And she a fair divided excellence,
Whose fullness of perfection lies in him. — William Shakespeare · 1616However we do praise ourselves,
Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,
More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn,
Than women’s are. — William Shakespeare · 1602Though men can cover crimes with bold stern looks,
Poor women's faces are their own faults' books. — William Shakespeare · 1594She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed;
She is a woman, therefore to be won. — William Shakespeare · 1592Mortality5 quotes
Time’s the king of men.
He’s both their parent, and he is their grave,
And gives them what he will, not what they crave. — William Shakespeare · 1608And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe,
And then from hour to hour we rot and rot,
And thereby hangs a tale. — William Shakespeare · 1616The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep. — William Shakespeare · 1616Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end. — William Shakespeare · 1609Men must endure
Their going hence even as their coming hither.
Ripeness is all. — William Shakespeare · 1606Passage of time5 quotes
The whirligig of time brings in his revenges. — William Shakespeare · 1602Time’s the king of men.
He’s both their parent, and he is their grave,
And gives them what he will, not what they crave. — William Shakespeare · 1608I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. — William Shakespeare · 1595Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end. — William Shakespeare · 1609Nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defense. — William Shakespeare · 1609Suicide5 quotes
To be or not to be—that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And, by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep—
No more—and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to—’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep—
To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there’s the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. — William Shakespeare · 1616O, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,
Or that the Everlasting had not fixed
His canon ’gainst self-slaughter! O God, God,
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world! — William Shakespeare · 1616Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death
Ere death dare come to us? — William Shakespeare · 1607Against self-slaughter
There is a prohibition so divine
That cravens my weak hand. — William Shakespeare · 1611So every bondman in his own hand bears
The power to cancel his captivity. — William Shakespeare · 1599Temptation5 quotes
The flow'ry way that leads to the broad gate and the great fire. — William Shakespeare · 1616Against my soul's pure truth why labor you
To make it wander in an unknown field? — William Shakespeare · 1594How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes deeds ill done! — William Shakespeare · 1616Ornament is but the guilèd shore
To a most dangerous sea. — William Shakespeare · 1598The primrose way to th' everlasting bonfire. — William Shakespeare · 1616Truth5 quotes
While you live, tell truth and shame the devil! — William Shakespeare · 1597Be it art or hap,
He hath spoken true. — William Shakespeare · 1607Against my soul's pure truth why labor you
To make it wander in an unknown field? — William Shakespeare · 1594Though thou speakest truth,
Methinks thou speak'st not well. — William Shakespeare · 1616Truth will come to light. — William Shakespeare · 1598Adversity4 quotes
Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything. — William Shakespeare · 1616Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. — George Eliot · 1859The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food—it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on. — George Eliot · 1859Let me embrace the sour adversaries,
For wise men say it is the wisest course. — William Shakespeare · 1595Betrayal4 quotes
Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. — William Shakespeare · 1599Trust not him that hath once broken faith. — William Shakespeare · 1595Oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betray ’s
In deepest consequence. — William Shakespeare · 1616Et tu, Brutè? — William Shakespeare · 1599Courage4 quotes
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once. — William Shakespeare · 1599The better part of valor is discretion. — William Shakespeare · 1597For courage mounteth with occasion. — William Shakespeare · 1616Our doubts are traitors
And makes us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt. — William Shakespeare · 1616Excess4 quotes
If music be the food of love, play on.
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken and so die. — William Shakespeare · 1602Can one desire too much of a good thing? — William Shakespeare · 1616They surfeited with honey and began
To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little
More than a little is by much too much. — William Shakespeare · 1597They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. — William Shakespeare · 1598Fear4 quotes
Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly. — William Shakespeare · 1594To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength,
Gives in your weakness strength unto your foe — William Shakespeare · 1595Our doubts are traitors
And makes us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt. — William Shakespeare · 1616Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution. — William Shakespeare · 1594Food4 quotes
Eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath. — William Shakespeare · 1599He hath eaten me out of house and home. — William Shakespeare · 1597Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour. — William Shakespeare · 1595I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit. — William Shakespeare · 1602Letting go of the past4 quotes
Things without all remedy
Should be without regard. What’s done is done. — William Shakespeare · 1616Harp not on that string, madam; that is past. — William Shakespeare · 1597Things past redress are now with me past care. — William Shakespeare · 1595What's gone and what's past help
Should be past grief. — William Shakespeare · 1611Patience4 quotes
How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees? — William Shakespeare · 1604Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast. — William Shakespeare · 1597Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod. — William Shakespeare · 1599Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper
Sprinkle cool patience! — William Shakespeare · 1616Randomness4 quotes
There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries. — William Shakespeare · 1599Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving. — William Shakespeare · 1604O Fortune, Fortune, all men call thee fickle. — William Shakespeare · 1597Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. — William Shakespeare · 1611Seasons4 quotes
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date. — William Shakespeare · 1609Winter, which being full of care
Makes summer's welcome, thrice more wished, more rare. — William Shakespeare · 1609The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit. — Sir Thomas Mallory · 1485Why, this is very midsummer madness! — William Shakespeare · 1602Sleep4 quotes
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And, where care lodges, sleep will never lie;
But where unbruisèd youth with unstuffed brain
Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign. — William Shakespeare · 1597O sleep, O gentle sleep,
Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down
And steep my senses in forgetfulness? — William Shakespeare · 1597Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eyes,
Steal me awhile from mine own company. — William Shakespeare · 1599Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care,
The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course,
Chief nourisher in life’s feast. — William Shakespeare · 1616