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William Shakespeare
I had rather...
I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here.
Source:...
Faith, thou hast...
Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head.
Source: The Merry Wives of Windsor,...
Here will be...
Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.
Source: The...
Better three hours...
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
Source: The Merry Wives of...
O, what a...
O, what a world of vile ill-favoured faults,
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a...
Why then the...
Why then the world's mine oyster,
Which I with sword will open.
Source: The...
There is a...
There is a divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance or death.
Source:...
I cannot tell...
I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.
Source: The Merry Wives of Windsor,...
I have a...
I have a kind of alacrity in sinking.
Source: The Merry Wives of Windsor, III. v....
Love like a...
Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues;
Pursuing that that flies, and flying what...
Except I be...
Except I be by Silvia in the night,
There is no music in the nightingale;
Unless I look on Silvia in the...
I have no...
I have no other but a woman's reason:
I think him so, because I think him so.
How use doth...
How use doth breed a habit in a man!
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, V. iv....
Then to Silvia...
Then to Silvia let us sing
That Silvia is excelling.
She excels each mortal thing
Upon the dull earth...
She hath more...
She hath more hair than wit, and more faults than hairs, and more wealth than faults.
Home-keeping youth have...
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, I....
Much is the...
Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy.
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, III....
O heaven! were...
O heaven! were man
But constant, he were perfect.
Source: The Two Gentlemen of...
Write till your...
Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears
Moist it again, and frame some feeling line
That may discover...
I'll be as...
I'll be as patient as a gentle stream
And make a pastime of each weary step,
Till the last step have brought me...