I would the gods had nothing else to do but to confirm my curses. (“Coriolanus”)
William Shakespeare Quotes
But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom more honored in the breach than the observance. (Hamlet)
She knew her distance and did angle for me, Madding my eagerness with her restraint, As all impediments on fancy’s course Are motives of more fancy; and in fine, her infinite cunning, with her modern grace Subdued me to her rate. (All’s Well That Ends Well)
How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping? (Much Ado About Nothing)
Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things… Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance: therefore, much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him, and it mars him; it sets him on, and […]
I drink to the general joy of the whole table. (Macbeth)
Ay, you spake in Latin then too; but ’tis no matter: I’ll ne’er be drunk whilst I live again, but in honest, civil, godly company, for this trick. If I be drunk, I’ll be drunk with those that have the fear of God, and not with drunken knaves. (The Merry Wives of Windsor)
I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment. (Othello)
Do not think, gentlemen, I am drunk: this is my ancient; this is my right hand, and this is my left: I am not drunk now; I can stand well enough, and speak well enough. (Othello)
We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards. (The Tempest)
