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-change Into something rich and strange. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.
William Shakespeare
Related Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were hi... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He doth nothing but talk of his horse. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Fill all thy bones with aches. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his ow... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And if his name be George, I 'll call him Peter; For new-made honour doth forget men's names. -King... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. -The Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight? -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. -King John. Act iv.... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is a wise father that knows his own child. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For he is but a bastard to the time That doth not smack of observation. -King John. Act i. Sc. 1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish. GEORGE HERBERT The fringed curtains of thine eye advance. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He that dies pays all debts. -The Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE From the still-vexed Bermoothes. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My library Was dukedom large enough. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him t... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A very ancient and fish-like smell. -The Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Light seeking light doth light of light beguile. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him ... ROBERT FROST Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him ... ROBERT FROST What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How use doth breed a habit in a man! -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He is a heavy eater of beef. Methinks it doth harm to his wit.
Wm Shakespeare in Twelfth Night. WM SHAKESPEARE God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye: Give him a lit... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind. -The Temp... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It doth make a man better,' quoth Robin Hood, 'to bear of those noble men so long ago. When one doth... HOWARD PYLE The thirst that from the soul doth rise,
Doth ask a drink divine;
But might I of Jove's nectar... BEN JONSON A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This sickness doth infect The very life-blood of our enterprise. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, he is all mirth. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. -The Merchant of Ven... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I dote on his very absence. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Some things are of that nature as to make
One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache. JOHN BUNYAN Where's the cheek that doth not fade, / Too much gazed at? JOHN KEATS The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain
Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain:
... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE His cheek bones were protruding and eyes were sunk. I waved at him but he stole the gaze. RANJANI RAMACHANDRAN His cares are now all ended. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act v. Sc. 2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground,
which cannot be gathered up again; nei... BIBLE It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than t... BIBLE I wasted time, and now doth Time waste me: For now hath Time made me his numb'ring clock; My thought... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow. BIBLE He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed! I ARE Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my d... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve SIR PHILIP SIDNEY And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, Wh... BIBLE Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In his old lunes again. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Thus ornament is but the guiled shore To a most dangerous sea. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest i... BIBLE For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise,
And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow;
Or... EDMUND SPENSER For take thy balance if thou be so wise And weigh the wind that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the... EDMUND SPENSER Condemned into everlasting redemption. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him! -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, Be comfort to my age! -A... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. -As You Like It. Act v... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Consider
The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:--
We are as they;
Like them we fa... CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place bene... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We that are in the vaward of our youth. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have heard
The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn,
Doth with his lofty and shrill-soundin... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories. NICHOLAS SPARKS All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may. -Th... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his
youth that he cannot endure in his ag... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There 's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Like one, that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned round, w... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks o... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The sun doth shake
Light from his locks, and, all the way
Breathing perfumes, doth spice the d... HENRY VAUGHAN ("THE SILURIST") Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive,
And finds that by his strength but vainly he... MICHAEL DRAYTON Old father antic the law. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A kind Of excellent dumb discourse. -The Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 3. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Courtsied when you have, and kiss'd The wild wave... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He will give the devil his due. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She fed him scraps from her ragbag because words were all that were left now. Perhaps he could use t... KATE ATKINSON O, that he were here to write me down an ass! -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words That ever blotted paper! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A fellow that hath had losses, and one that hath two gowns and every thing handsome about him. -Muc... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 5. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ought we not to look upon our own history as being at least as full of God, as full of His goodness ... CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour, Foun... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's such divinity doth hedge a king
That treason can but peep to what it would,
Acts littl... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my ... BIBLE Hee a beast doth die, that hath done no good to his country. GEORGE HERBERT He's a man who... well, one of the great things about Shakespeare is that his characters are inc... JEREMY IRONS And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him. And, behold, there arose a great te... THE BIBLE Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs LORD BYRON Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove,
Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own;
Tho... WILLIAM DRUMMOND (1) Every one can master a grief but he that has it. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Who doth his owne businesse, foules not his hands. GEORGE HERBERT The marigold, whose courtier's face echoes the sun, and doth unlace her at his rise, at his full sto... JOHN CLEVELAND The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination, And every lovely organ of he... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Nothing comes amiss; so money comes withal. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in l... BIBLE
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To the sweet glances of thy honored love,
I rather... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In my mind's eye, Horatio. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to
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an old tale that the verity of it ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Master, master, old news! And such news as you never heard of! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My heart hath one poor string to stay it by,
Which holds but till thy news be uttered,
And the... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night,
Black, fearful, comfortless, and horrible. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ten day ago I drowned these news in tears;
And now, to add more measure to your woes,
I come t... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
Hath but a losing office, and his tongue
Sounds ever a... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's villainous news abroad. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If't be summer news,
Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st
But keep that count'nance st... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The art of our necessities is strange, That can make vile things precious. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose
To wage against the emnity o' th' air,
To be a comra... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now we sit close about this taper here
And call in question our necessities. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Madness in great ones must not unwatched go. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When most I wink, then do my eyes best see WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So we grew together,
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition--
... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They say men are molded out of faults, and for the most, become much more the better; for being a li... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men's faults to themselves seldom appear. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and brea... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis the mind that makes the body rich. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it al... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she; and she a fair divided excellence, ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning;
One pain is less'ned by another's anguish;
Tur... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, s... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The proverb is something musty. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, what a mansion have those vices got
Which for their habitation chose out thee,
Where beauty... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Who has a book of all that monarchs do,
He's more secure to keep it shut than shown;
For vice ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity
(So it be new, there's no respect how vile)
That is... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Hoy-day!
What a sweep of vanity comes this way! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Neither a borrower nor a lender be. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told;
Many a man his life hath sold;
... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If thou art rich, thou'rt poor,
For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows,
Thou bear'st thy... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All gold and silver rather turn to dirt,
An 'tis no better reckoned but of these
Who worship d... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What, man! more water glideth by the mill
That wots the miller of; and easy it is
Of a cut lo... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner:
Honest water, which ne'er left man i' th' mire. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The people are like water and the ruler a boat. Water can
support a boat or overturn it. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For who so firm that cannot be seduced? WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE While you live tell the truth and shame the devil. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is, When time is broke and no proportion kept! So is ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, call back yesterday, bid time return. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Make not your thoughts you prisons. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passi... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age Have left me... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, how thy worth with manners may I sing
When thou art all the better part of me?
What can min... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Cry havoc! and let loose the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carri... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be wise and love exceeds man's might. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Not that I have the power to clutch my hand When his fair angels would salute by palm, But for... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have be... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but d... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. Merchant Of Venice WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious l... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which s... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be eleven. And so from hour to... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Good-morrow to thee; welcome: Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge: To business... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overst... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A politician is one that would circumvent God. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice d... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft int... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on natur... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. Hamlet WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Knowledge is the wing whereby we fly to Heaven. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet do I fear thy nature.
It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest wa... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have you the heart? When your head did but ache,
I knit my handkercher about your brows--
The... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A little more than kin, and less than kind! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But jealous souls will not be answered so;
They are not ever jealous for the cause,
But jealou... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock
The meat it fee... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I do beseech you--
Though I perchance am vicious in my guess
(As I confess it is my nature's p... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that
supplants us all in the long run. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I shall be condemned
Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else
But what your jealousies awake... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to com... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My plenteous joys,
Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet 'tis greater skill
In a true hate to pray they have their will;
The very devils cannot pla... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How use doth breed a habit in a man!
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
I better brook t... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The miserable have no other medicine But only hope. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE