"Under loves heavy burden do I sink. --Romeo"
Quote collection
William Shakespeare quotes (page 165 of 202)
4K quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"A little more than kin, and less than kind."
"I have supped full with horrors."
"But whate'er I am, nor I nor any man that but man is, With nothing shall be pleased 'til he be eased With being nothing."
"I that please some, try all, both joy and terror Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error."
"I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at midnight."
"No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change."
"Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow; Thou canst help time to furrow me with age, But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage."
"Time is a very bankrupt and owes more than he's worth to season. Nay, he's a thief too: have you not heard men say, That Time comes stealing on by night and day?"
"Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall die."
"What, keep a week away? Seven days and nights, Eightscore-eight hours, and lovers' absent hours More tedious than the dial eightscore times! O weary reckoning!"
"Barnes are blessings."
"What thing, in honor, had my father lost, That need to be revived and breathed in me?"
"Those that do teach young babes Do it with gentle means and easy tasks."
"So doth the greater glory dim the less: A substitute shines brightly as a king Until a king be by."
"Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face! I had rather lie in the woolen."
"Sycorax has grown into a hoop"
"He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. (Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost, IV)"
"Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must."
"Let life be short, else shame will be too long."