Brevity is the soul of wit.
Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out at every joint and motive of her body.
True apothecary thy drugs art quick
What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again,Good Kate; I am a gentleman.
What win I if I gain the thing I seek?A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy.Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week?Or sells eternity to get a toy?
The evil that men do lives after them;The good is oft interred with their bones.
All the world's a stage,And all the men and women merely players;They have their exits and their entrances,And one man in his time plays many parts,His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,Mewl...
Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth But the plain single vow that is vow'd true.
I cannot live to hear the news from England.But I do prophesy th' election lightsOn Fortinbras; he has my dying voice.So tell him, with th' occurents, more and less,Which have solicited - the rest is...
Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone.
Be thou as chaste as ice as pure as snow thou shalt not escape calumny.
Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.
Done to death by slanderous tongue
What's mine is yours and what is yours is mine.
Mother, I will look to like. If looking liking moves.
WESTMORELAND. O that we now had here But one ten thousand of those men in England That do no work to-day!KING. What's he that wishes so? My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin; If we are mark'd to...
Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find.
Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as whenThe bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix,Her ashes new-create another heirAs great in admiration as herself.
The dreadful dead of dark midnight.
She is drowned already, sir, with salt water, though I seem to drown her remembrance again with more.