God be prais’d, that to believing souls, Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. (Henry VI)
William Shakespeare Quotes
Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation. (Richard II)
Look how well my garments sit upon me. (The Tempest)
Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide them all. (King Lear)
What is the city but the people? (Coriolanus)
At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May’s new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows. (Love’s Labour’s Lost)
Some say that ever ‘gainst the season comes Wherein our Saviour’s birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm; So hallow’d and so gracious is the […]
As far as to the sepulchre of Christ, Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross We are impressed and engag’d to fight, Forthwith a power of English shall we levy; Whose arms were moulded in their mothers’ womb To chase these pagans in those holy fields Over whose acres walk’d those blessed feet Which fourteen […]
A light heart lives long. (Love’s Labour’s Lost)
My revenue is the silly cheat. (The Winter’s Tale)
