Quote

Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most modest terms for I am one of those gentle ones that will use the devil himself with courtesy: sayest thou that house is dark?

William Shakespeare

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Shakespeare
Age: 51 †
Born: 1564
Born: April 26
Died: 1616
Died: April 23
Actor
Dramaturge
Playwright
Poet
Stage Actor
Writer
Stratford-upon-Avon
Warwickshire
Shakespeare
The Bard
The Bard of Avon
William Shakspere
Swan of Avon
Bard of Avon
Shakespere
Shakespear
Shakspeare
Shackspeare
William Shake‐ſpeare
Devil
Dishonest
Terms
Courtesy
Ones
Modesty
Term
Modest
Call
Satan
Dark
Gentle
Use
Thou
House
Thee

More quotes by William Shakespeare

Image
For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life’s but breath, to trust it error.
William Shakespeare
Image
A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as the schoolboy on his way to school. (Act 2, scene 2)
William Shakespeare
Image
A man I am cross'd with adversity.
William Shakespeare
Image
Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil With them forgive yourself.
William Shakespeare
Image
There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the observer doth thy history, fully unfold.
William Shakespeare
Image
When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
William Shakespeare
Image
Ay me! sad hours seem long.
William Shakespeare
Image
To this urn let those repair That are either true or fair For these dead birds sigh a prayer.
William Shakespeare
Image
These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men.
William Shakespeare
Image
Angels and ministers of grace defend us.
William Shakespeare
Image
it is my lady! *sighs* o, it is my love! o, that she knew she were! she speaks, yet she sais nothing. what of that? her eye discourses i will answer it. i am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, having some business, do entreat her eyes to twinkle in their spheres till they return.
William Shakespeare
Image
If I be waspish, best beware my sting.
William Shakespeare
Image
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name such tricks hath strong imagination.
William Shakespeare
Image
For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul, If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.
William Shakespeare
Image
The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.
William Shakespeare
Image
That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! It might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'er-reaches one that would circumvent God, might it not?
William Shakespeare
Image
And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once That makes ingrateful man!
William Shakespeare
Image
And will he not come again? And will he not come again? No, no, he is dead. Go to thy deathbed. He never will come again.
William Shakespeare
Image
Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.
William Shakespeare
Image
When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony.
William Shakespeare