My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. (Henry V)
William Shakespeare Quotes
Could I come near your beauty with my nails I’d set my ten commandments in your face. (Henry VI)
My beauty, though but mean, Needs not the painted flourish of your praise: Beauty is not bought by judgement of the eye. (Love’s Labour’s Lost)
Beatrice: Just, if he send me no husband; for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening. Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face: I had rather lie in the woollen. Leonarto:You may light on a husband that hath no beard. Beatrice: What […]
Is it not strange that sheep’s guts should hale souls out of men’s bodies? (Much Ado About Nothing)
A good leg will fall, a straight back will stoop, a black beard will turn white, a curled pate will grow bald, a fair face will wither, a full eye will wax hollow. But a good heart… never changes, but keeps its course truly. (Henry V)
Hamlet: Denmark’s a prison. Rosencrantz: Then is the world one. Hamlet: A goodly one, in which there are many confines, wards, and dungeons, Denmark being one o’ th’ worst. Rosencrantz: We think not so, my lord. Hamlet: Why, then ’tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it […]
‘Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed, When not to be receives reproach of being, And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed Not by our feeling but by others’ seeing. For why should others’ false adulterate eyes Give salutation to my sportive blood? Or on my frailties why are frailer spies, Which […]
Shall I never see a bachelor of three score again? (Much Ado About Nothing)
Conscience is but a word that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe. (Richard III)
