A college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram? William Shakespeare More Quotes by William Shakespeare More Quotes From William Shakespeare What many men desire--that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show, Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach, Which pries not to th' interior, but like the martlet Builds in the weather on the outward wall, Even in the force and road of casualty. William Shakespeare wall eye men O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows, But worn a bait for ladies. William Shakespeare bait husband men If you shall marry, You give away this hand, and this is mine; You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine; You give away myself, which is known mine; For I by vow am so embodied yours That she which marries you must marry me-- Either both or none. William Shakespeare giving heaven hands A time, methinks, too short To make a world-without-end bargain in. William Shakespeare too-short ends world Let husbands know Their wives have sense like them. They see, and smell, And have their palates both for sweet and sour, As husbands have. William Shakespeare smell husband sweet Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just. William Shakespeare medicine shows heaven Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe. William Shakespeare woe nurse looks Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense? William Shakespeare offense mercy Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God, My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee. William Shakespeare mercy-of-god thee soul So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied. William Shakespeare simple judging sea Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary And pitch our evils there? William Shakespeare sanctuary evil desire All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy. William Shakespeare motive fancy courses No place indeed should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds. William Shakespeare murder revenge should-have For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. William Shakespeare denmark-in-hamlet tongue murder Some say that ever 'gainst the season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor wi William Shakespeare bird night long Two may keep counsel putting one away! William Shakespeare secrecy may two O shame, where is thy blush? William Shakespeare shame Ships are but boards, sailors but men. William Shakespeare ships boards men O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel (Who had no doubt some noble creature in her) Dashed all to pieces! O, the cry did knock Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perished! William Shakespeare soul brave heart My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend, And nothing brings me all things. William Shakespeare sickness all-things long
