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Letter "W" » William Shakespeare Quotes
«I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
eggs, suck, sucks, weasel, weasels
«Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
blow, ingratitude, unkind, unkindest, winter
«Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Passion
| Keywords:
accursed, base
«Each your doing,So singular in each particular,Crowns what you are doing in the present deed,That all your acts are queens.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
crowns, deed, Queens, singular, singulars
«Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Ambition
| Keywords:
Other side, The other side, The Vault, vaulted, vaulting, vaults
«Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.»
«Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
modesty, observance, observances, overstep, overstepped, suit, the Action
«So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Jealousy
| Keywords:
artless, fearing, spills, spilt
«Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
affections, bleed, cooled, dimensions, diseases, Fed, healed, Jew, organs, prick, pricked, pricking, resemble, revenge, sense organs, subject to, tickle, tickled, tickles, tickling, warmed
«To be or not to be that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end them.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Literary
| Keywords:
Against A, arrows, nobler, opposing, outrageous, take up, take up arms
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