William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 71 | Just Great DataBase

BENEDICK: That a woman conceived me, I thank her; that she brought me up, I likewise give her most humble thanks. But that I will have a recheat winded in my forehead or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick, all women shall pardon me. Because I will not do them the wrong to mistrust any, I will do myself the right to trust none. And the fine is, for the which I may go the finer, I will live a bachelor.

..What our contempt often hurls from us,We wish it our again; the present pleasure,By revolution lowering,does becomeThe opposite of itself..

What need the bridge much broader than the flood? The fairest grant is the necessity.

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, 
trippingly on the tongue.

Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor.
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

Let me hear you speak farther. I have spirit to do anything that appears not foul in the truth of my spirit.

Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;To lie in cold obstruction and to rot;This sensible warm motion to becomeA kneaded clod; and the delighted spiritTo bathe in fiery floods, or to resideIn thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice;To be imprison'd in the viewless winds,And blown with restless violence round aboutThe pendent world; or to be worse than worstOf those that lawless and incertain thoughtImagine howling: 'tis too horrible!The weariest and most loathed worldly lifeThat age, ache, penury and imprisonmentCan lay on nature is a paradiseTo what we fear of death.

I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment.

From too much liberty, my Lucio, libertyAs surfeit is the father of much fast,So every scope of the immoderate useTurns to restraint. Our natures do pursue, -Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, - A thirsty evil; and when we drink we die.

To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life.

Life is better life past fearing death,Than that which lives to fear.

That in the captain's but a choleric word,Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

JULIA They do not love that do not show their love.LUCETTA O, they love least that let men know their love.Two Gentlemen of Verona 1.2.31-2; a classic dilemma

At first I did adore a twinkling star But now I worship a celestial sun

What, gone without a word? Ay, so true love should do. It cannot speak, For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it." (2.2.17-19)

Cuando las manzanas están podridas, es difícil escoger.

Whate'er I read to her. I'll plead for youAs for my patron, stand you so assured,As firmly as yourself were in still place - Yea, and perhaps with more successful wordsThan you, unless you were a scholar, sir.O this learning, what a thing it is!

Of all matches never was the like.

By this reckoning he is more a shrew than she.

Such a mad marriage never was before.