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William Shakespeare
He reads much;<br>He...
He reads much;
He is a great observer, and he looks
Quite through the deeds of men.
O judgment! thou...
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.
For my own...
For my own part, it was Greek to me.
Source: Julius Caesar, I. i. (288).
--...
A friend should...
A friend should bear his friend's infirmities,
But Brutus makes mine greater than they...
Friends, Romans, countrymen,...
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do...
That lowliness is...
That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,
Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;
But when he once attains...
Ambition should be...
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
Source: Julius Caesar, III. ii....
O! that a...
O! that a man might know
The end of this day's business ere it come.
Source:...
As he was...
As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Source:...
But when I...
But when I tell him he hates flatterers,
He says he does, being then most flattered.
Study is like...
Study is like the heaven's glorious sun,
That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks;
Small have continuous...
It adds a...
It adds a precious seeing to the eye;
A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind;
A lover's ear will hear the...
A jest's prosperity...
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear
Of him that hears it, never in the tongue
Of him that makes...
Devise, wit; write,...
Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio.
Source: Love's...
Remuneration! O! that's...
Remuneration! O! that's the Latin word for three farthings.
Source: Love's Labour's...
He hath never...
He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink;...
Warble, child; make...
Warble, child; make passionate my sense of hearing.
Source: Love's Labour's Lost,...
These earthly godfathers...
These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights,
That give a name to every fixed star,
Have no more profit of their...
Taffeta phrases, silken...
Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise,
Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation,
Figures...
From women's eyes...
From women's eyes this doctrine I derive:
They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;
They are the books, the...