Quote

Hold, or cut bowstrings.

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
Cutting
Hold
Action

More quotes by William Shakespeare

Image
That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimms, and makes it indistinct As water is in water
William Shakespeare
Image
No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell.
William Shakespeare
Image
O, what damned minutes tells he o'er Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet fondly loves!
William Shakespeare
Image
Sigh no more ladies, sigh no more, men were deceivers ever
William Shakespeare
Image
I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
William Shakespeare
Image
O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.
William Shakespeare
Image
Preferred three hours quicker over one moment late.
William Shakespeare
Image
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil.
William Shakespeare
Image
I will speak daggers to her, but use none.
William Shakespeare
Image
I must be cruel only to be kind Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
William Shakespeare
Image
He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.
William Shakespeare
Image
O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Creating awe and fear in other men?
William Shakespeare
Image
Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.
William Shakespeare
Image
Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.
William Shakespeare
Image
Men should be what they seem Or those that be not, would they might seem none!.
William Shakespeare
Image
Where the bee sucks, there suck I In the cow-slip's bell i lie There I couch when owls do cry
William Shakespeare
Image
I cannot, nor I will not hold me still My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.
William Shakespeare
Image
Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root.
William Shakespeare
Image
Words are easy, like the wind Faithful friends are hard to find.
William Shakespeare
Image
Unless the old adage must be verified, That beggars mounted, run their horse to death.
William Shakespeare