All Quotes

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father. ”

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment! ”

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart. ”

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep. ”

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. ”

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action. ”

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. ”

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company. ”

Brevity is the soul of wit. ”

There's many a man has more hair than wit. ”