Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.
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The game is up.
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole.
I would fain die a dry death.
From this day forward until the end of the world...we in it shall be remembered...we band of brothers.
From the still-vexed Bermoothes.
I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
Yet do I fear thy nature It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
Courage mounteth with occasion.
If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly.
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.
The play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
Thou art the Mars of malcontents.
Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
The end crowns all,
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it.
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it.
See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.
In a false quarrel there is no true valour.
Oh, that way madness lies let me shun that.
O, woe is me, To have seen what I have seen, see what I see
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
We have some salt of our youth in us.
O, throw away the worser part of it, And live the purer with the other half.
Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.
A horse a horse my kingdom for a horse
It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.
While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.
Pity is the virture of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.
I like this place, and willingly would waste my time in it.
To business that we love, we rise betime and go to't with delight.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments: love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds.
Admit impediments: love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds.
But love is blind and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit;
For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
To see me thus transformed to a boy.
The pretty follies that themselves commit;
For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
To see me thus transformed to a boy.
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him if stronger, spare thyself.
My salad days,
When I was green in judgment.
When I was green in judgment.
The worst is not
So long as we can say, "This is the worst."
So long as we can say, "This is the worst."
The soul of this man is in his clothes.
Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.
I wasted time, now time doth waste me.
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad.
Et tu, Brute!
It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.
O Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
Speak to me as to thy thinkings,
As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts
The worst of words.
As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts
The worst of words.
This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
In false quarrels there is no true valor.
We are advertis'd by our loving friends.
But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance.
He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know 't, and he's not robb'd at all.
Merrily, merrily shall I live now,
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.
Their understanding
Begins to swell and the approaching tide
Will shortly fill the reasonable shores
That now lie foul and muddy.
Begins to swell and the approaching tide
Will shortly fill the reasonable shores
That now lie foul and muddy.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.
Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.
I am not bound to please thee with my answers.
There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
Though inclination be as sharp as will,
My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,
And, like a man to double business bound,
I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
And both neglect.
My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,
And, like a man to double business bound,
I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
And both neglect.
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
The course of true love was never easy.
I wish you all the joy you can wish.
The attempt and not the deed Confounds us.
A very ancient and fish-like smell.
Fill all thy bones with aches.
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just an charitable war.
We burn daylight.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth.
But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go.
I understand a fury in your words,
But not the words.
But not the words.
I have not slept one wink.
Jesters do often prove prophets.
The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.
A plague o' both your houses
Lady you bereft me of all words,
Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,
And there is such confusion in my powers.
Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,
And there is such confusion in my powers.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.
Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.
Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause.
Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war.
He is not great who is not greatly good.