shakespeare quotes

Let me take you a button-hole lower.
-- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"

He jests at scars who never felt a wound.
-- Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet, II. 2"

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet,
Are of imagination all compact...
-- Wm. Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.
-- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

For courage mounteth with occasion.
-- William Shakespeare, "King John"

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his
argument.
-- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"

Every cloud engenders not a storm.
-- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed.
-- Shakespeare, "Merchant of Venice"

Harp not on that string.
-- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
-- Shakespeare, "King Lear"

He hath eaten me out of house and home.
-- William Shakespeare, "Henry IV"