Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the dark. (Antony and Cleopatra)
William Shakespeare Quotes
O, I have pass’d a miserable night, So full of fearful dreams, of ugly sights. That, as I am a Christian faithful man, I would not spend another such a night Thou ’twere to buy a world of happy days, So full of dismal terror was the time! (Richard III)
Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity. (Richard II)
In nature there is no blemish but the mind: none can be called deformed but the unkind. (Twelfth Night)
Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean: so, over that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. […]
His life was gentle, and the elements So mix’d in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, This was a man! (Julius Caesar)
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin, That all with one consent praise new-born gauds, Though they are made and moulded of things past, And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o’er-dusted. The present eye praises the present object. (Troilus and Cressida)
I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought. (Henry IV)
Sirrah, I am sworn brother to a leash of drawers and can call them all by their christen names, as Tom, Dick, and Francis. (Henry IV)
New-made honor doth forget men’s names. (King John)
