My word fly up my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
They are the books, the arts, the academes,That show, contain and nourish all the world.
O! Learn to read what silent love hath writ:to hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
Death is a fearful thing.
Where is Polonius? HAMLET In heaven. Send hither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i' th' other place yourself. But if indeed you find him not within this month, you shall nose...
Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia,And therefore I forbid my tears.
There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,Doing more murder in this loathsome world,Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.
The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.
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: Sometimes too hot the eye o...
Let every man be master of his time.
Full fathom five thy father lies;Of his bones are coral made;Those are pearls that were his eyes:Nothing of him that doth fade,But doth suffer a sea-changeInto something rich and strange.Sea-nymphs ho...
These blessed candles of the night.
The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.
This too shall pass.
God befriend us as our cause is just!
Your honour's players, hearing your amendment, Are come to play a pleasant comedy,For so your doctors hold it very meet,Seeing too much sadness hath congealed your blood,And melancholy is the nurse of...
If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poetAre of imagination all compact:One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:Th...