Top 100 Quotes About Life William Shakespeare
#1. Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops. Hope tinged with melancholy - like life.
William Shakespeare
#2. Our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, man's life is cheap as beast's.
William Shakespeare
#4. Be thou assured, if words be made of breath,
And breath of life, I have no life to breath
What thou hast said to me.
William Shakespeare
#6. Life is too short, so live your life to the fullest..every second of your life just treasure it..
William Shakespeare
#7. Minutes, hours, days, months, and years,
Pass'd over to the end they were created,
Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.
Ah, what a life were this!
William Shakespeare
#8. Hat our contempt often hurls from us,
We wish it our again; the present pleasure,
By revolution lowering,does become
The opposite of itself..
William Shakespeare
#9. I'll find a day to massacre them all
And raze their faction and their family,
The cruel father and his traitorous sons,
To whom I sued for my dear son's life,
And make them know what 'tis to let a queen
Kneel in the streets and beg for grace in vain.
William Shakespeare
#10. There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.
William Shakespeare
#12. The time of life is short;
To spend that shortness basely were too long.
William Shakespeare
#13. On a day - alack the day! -
Love, whose month is ever May,
Spied a blossom passing fair
Playing in the wanton air
William Shakespeare
#14. All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
William Shakespeare
#15. Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.
William Shakespeare
#18. Marry, peace it bodes, and love, and quiet life, and, to be short, what not that's sweet and happy.
William Shakespeare
#19. So far be distant; and good night, sweet friend: thy love ne'er alter, till they sweet life end
William Shakespeare
#21. I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen persona. Here is Robert, known for his portrayal of many characters, including gangsters. But in real life, he is elegant and erudite. He sits in the garden reading the sonnets of William Shakespeare.
Luanne Rice
#23. I commend my soul into the hands of God, my Creator, hoping and
assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ, my
Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting.
William Shakespeare
#25. And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, Never, Never, Never, Never! Pray you, undo this button.
William Shakespeare
#27. I do love My country's good with a respect more tender, More holy and profound, then mine own life, My dear wife's estimate, her womb increase, And treasure of my loins.
William Shakespeare
#28. Oh, injurious love, that respites me a life, whose very comfort is still a dying horror
William Shakespeare
#29. My wife's liver Infected as her life, she would not live The running of one glass.
William Shakespeare
#30. Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William Shakespeare
#31. Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard,
A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark
Is by a forged process of my death
Rankly abused: but know, thou noble youth,
The serpent that did sting thy father's life
Now wears his crown.
William Shakespeare
#32. I cannot tell what you and other men
Think of this life; but, for my single self,
I had as lief not be as live to be
In awe of such a thing as I myself.
William Shakespeare
#33. I take thee at thy word:
Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;
Henceforth I never will be Romeo.
William Shakespeare
#34. O, if I say, you look upon this verse,
When I perhaps compounded am with clay,
Do not so much as my poor name rehearse,
But let your love even with my life decay;
Lest the wise world should look into your moan,
And mock you with me after I am gone.
William Shakespeare
#39. Though now this grained face of mine be hid
In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow,
And all the conduits of my blood froze up,
Yet hath my night of life some memory,
My wasting lamps some fading glimmer left,
My dull deaf ears a little use to hear.
William Shakespeare
#40. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life,
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents' strife ...
O, I am fortune's fool! ...
Then I defy you, stars.
William Shakespeare
#41. 'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.
William Shakespeare
#42. Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
William Shakespeare
#43. There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the observer doth thy history, fully unfold.
William Shakespeare
#44. You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.
William Shakespeare
#45. So are you to my thoughts as food to life, or as sweet seasoned showers are to the ground.
William Shakespeare
#46. Sweet love! Sweet lines! Sweet life! Here is her hand, the agent of her heart; Here is her oath for love, her honour's pawn
William Shakespeare
#49. These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men.
William Shakespeare
#51. I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die.
William Shakespeare
#52. O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars
Are in the poorest thing superfluous.
Allow not nature more than nature needs,
Man's life's as cheap as beast's.
William Shakespeare
#54. Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir.
My daughter he hath wedded. I will die,
And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death's.
William Shakespeare
#55. I long to hear the story of your life, which must captivate the ear strangely.
William Shakespeare
#56. My love to love is love but to disgrace it,
For I have heard it is a life in death,
That laughs and weeps, and all but with a breath.
William Shakespeare
#57. But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time's fool,
And Time, that takes survey of all the world,
Must have a stop.
William Shakespeare
#58. No more; unless the next word that thou speak'st
Have some malignant power upon my life:
If so, I pray thee breathe it in mine ear,
As ending anthem of my endless dolour.
William Shakespeare
#59. Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
William Shakespeare
#60. This might be the be-all and end-all here, but here, upon this bank and shoal of time, we'd jump the life to come
William Shakespeare
#61. How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
William Shakespeare
#63. And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare
#64. There's nothing in this world can make me joy: Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man; And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste That it yields nought but shame and bitterness.
William Shakespeare
#65. So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
William Shakespeare
#66. Never Play With The Feelings Of Others, Because You May Win The Game But The Risk Is That You Will Surely Lose The Person For Life Time
William Shakespeare
#67. Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, and thou no breath at all?
William Shakespeare
#69. If one good deed in all my life I did,
I do repent it from my very soul.
William Shakespeare
#71. World, world, O world! But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee/ Life would not yield to age.
William Shakespeare
#75. For death remembered should be like a mirror,
Who tells us life's but breath, to trust it error.
William Shakespeare
#76. After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.
William Shakespeare
#77. Life is an intresting journey where the beginning is known,way is a puzzle and the end is unknown
William Shakespeare
#79. The heavens forbid
But that our loves and comforts should increase
Even as our days do grow!
William Shakespeare
#80. All of Creation's a farce.
Man was born as a joke.
In his head his reason is buffeted
Like wind-blown smoke.
Life is a game.
Everyone ridicules everyone else.
But he who has the last laugh
Laughs longest.
William Shakespeare
#81. And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe.
And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot;
And thereby hangs a tale.
William Shakespeare
#83. Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile,
Hath not old custom made this life more sweet
Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods
More free from peril than the envious court?
William Shakespeare
#88. Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven;
Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads
And recks not his own read.
William Shakespeare
#90. Life has two rules: #1 Never quit #2 Always remember rule # 1.
Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none
William Shakespeare
#91. O gentlemen, the time of life is short!
To spend that shortness basely were too long,
If life did ride upon a dial's point,
Still ending at the arrival of an hour.
William Shakespeare
#92. Art thou afeard
To be the same in thine own act and valour
As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that
Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life,
And live a coward in thine own esteem,
Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,'
Like the poor cat i' the adage?
William Shakespeare
#94. Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible!
William Shakespeare
#97. By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.
William Shakespeare
#98. Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep.
William Shakespeare
#100. ROMEO: I have night's cloak to hide me from their sight;
And but thou love me, let them find me here:
My life were better ended by their hate,
Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love.
William Shakespeare
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