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)
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)
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. […]
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)
I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. (The Merry Wives of Windsor)
