invite 43Ters to share favorite quotes from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets

Dance on the sands, and yet no footing seen:

Love is a spirit all compact of fire,

Not gross to sink, but light, and will aspire.

I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.

For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings;

Angels and ministers of grace defend us!

These lies are like their father that begets them – gross as a mountain, open, palpable. Why, thou clay-brained guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou whoreson, obscene, greasy tallow-catch -

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

My love’s more richer than my tongue

You see me here, you gods, a poor old man,
As full of grief as age; wretched in both!
If it be you that stir these daughters’ hearts
Against their father, fool me not so much
To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger,
And let not women’s weapons, water-drops,
Stain my man’s cheeks! No, you unnatural hags,
I will have such revenges on you both,
That all the world shall – I will do such things –
What they are, yet I know not: but they shall be
The terrors of the earth. You think I’ll weep
No, I’ll not weep:
I have full cause of weeping; but this heart
Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws,
Or ere I’ll weep. O fool, I shall go mad!

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“Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.”

So true…so true