Quotes by "William Shakespeare"

Modest doubt is call'd the beacon of the wise.

Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain; As painfully to pore upon a book To seek the light of truth while truth the while Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look. Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile; So ere you find where light in darkness lies Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes. Study me how to please the eye indeed By fixing it upon a fairer eye, Who dazzling so, that eye shall be his heed, And give him light that it was blinded by. Study is like the heavens’ glorious sun, That will not be deep searched with saucy looks. Small have continual plodders ever won Save base authority from others’ books. These earthly godfathers of heaven’s lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are. Too much to know is to know naught but fame, And every godfather can give a name.

BIRON Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain; As painfully to pore upon a book To seek the light of truth while truth the while Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look. Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile; So ere you find where light in darkness lies Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes. Study me how to please the eye indeed By fixing it upon a fairer eye, Who dazzling so, that eye shall be his heed, And give him light that it was blinded by. Study is like the heavens’ glorious sun, That will not be deep searched with saucy looks. Small have continual plodders ever won Save base authority from others’ books. These earthly godfathers of heaven’s lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are. Too much to know is to know naught but fame, And every godfather can give a name.

আমি কি তোমাকে গ্রীষ্মকালীন দিনের সঙ্গে তুলনা করতে পারি? তুমি তারও চেয়ে বেশি সুন্দর এবং সহনশীল এটা জানি, এলোমেলো হাওয়া মে ফুলের মিষ্টি পাপড়িকে নাড়িয়ে যায় এবং গ্রীষ্মের ছুটির অবকাশও ক্ষণস্থায়ী বলে হারায় কখনো বা সূর্যের প্রখর তাপ ও সোনালী আভা মেঘের আড়ালে ঝাপসা হয়ে যায় এবং এভাবে প্রতিটি সুন্দর অন্তর্নিহিত বিভা হারায়; কখনোবা দৈবাৎ, কখনোবা প্রকৃতির অমোঘ নিয়মে। কিন্তু তোমার শাশ্বত সৌন্দর্য কখনো বিবর্ণ হবে না; কখনো তোমার আয়ত্তাধীন সৌন্দর্য হারাবে না। এমনকি মৃত্যুও পারবে না তার আলো ছায়া দিয়ে তোমাকে অদৃশ্য করতে! কেননা তুমি শাশ্বত সুন্দর হয়ে বেড়ে উঠেছো। যতকাল মানুষ বেঁচে রবে বা দু’চোখ মেলে দেখতে পাবে, ততকাল এই কবিতা রয়ে যাবে যা তোমাকেও অমরতা দেবে।

Love look not with eyes, but with the mind, therefore is cupid painted blind.'' William Shakespeare 1564 - 1616

Glendower: I can call the spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come, when you do call for them?

Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. I would not change it.

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)

Educated men are so impressive!

Falstaff: [...] Good faith, this same young sober-blooded boy doth not love me; nor a man cannot make him laugh—but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine. There's never none of these demure boys come to any proof; for thin drink doth so over-cool their blood, and making many fish-meals, that they fall into a kind of male green-sickness; and then, when they marry, they get wenches. They are generally fools and cowards-which some of us should be too, but for inflammation. A good sherris-sack hath a two-fold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes; which delivered o'er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit. The second property of your excellent sherris is the warming of the blood; which before, cold and settled, left the liver white and pale, which is the badge of pusillanimity and cowardice; but the sherris warms it, and makes it course from the inwards to the parts extremes. It illumineth the face, which, as a beacon, gives warning to all the rest of this little kingdom, man, to arm; and then the vital commoners and inland petty spirits muster me all to their captain, the heart, who, great and puff'd up with this retinue, doth any deed of courage—and this valour comes of sherris. So that skill in the weapon is nothing without sack, for that sets it a-work; and learning, a mere hoard of gold kept by a devil till sack commences it and sets it in act and use. Hereof comes it that Prince Harry is valiant; for the cold blood he did naturally inherit of his father, he hath, like lean, sterile, and bare land, manured, husbanded, and till'd, with excellent endeavour of drinking good and good store of fertile sherris, that he is become very hot and valiant. If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would teach them should be to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.

It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.

I dote on his very absence.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

I was adored once too.