“ His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract. William Shakespeare
“ Mine honor is my life; both grow in one.Take honor from me, and my life is done. William Shakespeare
“ Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard,A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of DenmarkIs by a forged process of my deathRankly abused: but know, thou noble youth,The serpent that did sting thy fat… William Shakespeare
“ Not I; I must be found;My parts, my title, and my perfect soul,Shall manifest me rightly. William Shakespeare
“ They met me in the day of success: and I havelearned by the perfectest report, they have more inthem than mortal knowledge. When I burned in desireto question them further, they made themselves air,in… William Shakespeare
“ BOTTOMThere are things in this comedy of Pyramus and Thisby that will never please. First, Pyramus must draw a sword to kill himself; which the ladiescannot abide. How answer you that?SNOUTBy'r lakin,… William Shakespeare
“ I would forget it fain,But oh, it presses to my memory,Like damnèd guilty deeds to sinners' minds. William Shakespeare
“ To die is to be a counterfeit, for he is but the counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man; but to counterfeit dying when a man thereby liveth is to be no counterfeit, but the true and perfe… William Shakespeare
“ Beshrew your eyes,They have o'erlook'd me and divided me;One half of me is yours, the other half yours,Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,And so all yours. William Shakespeare
“ My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,Shakes so my single state of manThat function is smothered in surmise,And nothing is but what is not. William Shakespeare
“ We defy augury. There is special providence inthe fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not tocome, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come—thereadiness is all. Since… William Shakespeare
“ The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action. William Shakespeare
“ The single and peculiar mind is boundWith all the strength and armor of the mindTo keep itself from noyance, but much moreThat spirit upon whose weal depends and restsThe lives of many. The cess of ma… William Shakespeare
“ When the devout religion of mine eyeMaintains such falsehood, then turn tears to fires,And these, who, often drowned, could never die,Transparent heretics, be burnt for liars!One fairer than my love?… William Shakespeare
“ But virtue, as it never will be moved,Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven,So lust, though to a radiant angel linked,Will sate itself in a celestial bedAnd prey on garbage. William Shakespeare
“ Thou calledst me a dog before thou hadst a cause,But since I am a dog, beware my fangs. William Shakespeare