Have you no modesty, no maiden shame, No touch of bashfulness? (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
William Shakespeare Quotes
Tell truth and shame the devil. (Henry IV)
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 into shape, and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name; such tricks hath strong imagination. (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact. (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
Poet How goes the world? Painter It wears, sir, as it grows. (Timon of Athens)
No profit grows where no pleasure is taken; In brief, sir, study what you most affect. (The Taming of the Shrew)
Thou mak’st me merry: I am full of pleasure; let us be jocund. (The Tempest)
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. (“As You Like It”)
There’s place and means for every man alive. (All’s Well That Ends Well)
How his piety Does make my deeds the blacker! (The Winter’s Tale)
