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William Shakespeare Quotes
«Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
antiquity, beard, belly, blasted, break wind, cheek, chin, chinned, chins, decreased, decreases, decreasing, increasing, leg, moist, take it on the chin, yellow
«This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leased out, I die pronouncing it, Like to a tenement or pelting farm: England, bound in with the triumphant sea Whose rocky shore beats back the envi»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
farm, leased, leases, leasing, pelt, pelting, pelts, pronouncing, rocky, rocky shore, tenement, tenements, The Rocky, triumphant
«His life was gentle, and the elements / So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up / And say to all the world, / This was a man!»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
elements, gentle, mix, mixes, mix in, mix up, stand up, The Elements, This Was
«Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in a foul oyster»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
dwelling house, dwells, foul, miser, oyster, pearl
«Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station Are of a most select and generous chief in that»
«Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
dryly, eats, pear, pears, virginity, withered
«What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Fate
| Keywords:
abide, boots, impose, tide