"Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom."
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William Shakespeare
28 quotes
Quotes by William Shakespeare
"Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?"
"Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love."
"If music be the food of love, play on."
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
"Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow"
"I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it."
"A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as the schoolboy on his way to school. (Act 2, scene 2)"
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
"The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show."
"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs."
"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."
"As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words."
"I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!"
"We know what we are, but not what we may be."
"whats here a cup closed in my true loves hand poisin i see hath been his timeless end. oh churl drunk all and left no friendly drop to help me after. i will kiss thy lips some poisin doth hang on them, to help me die with a restorative. thy lips are warm.yea noise then ill be brief oh happy dagger this is thy sheath. there rust and let me die."
"I bear a charmed life."
"The course of true love never did run smooth."
"To me, fair friend, you never can be old,For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still."
"There's a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads onto fortune, omitted, all their voyages end in shallows and miseries. Upon such tide are we now..."