William Shakespeare Might Quotations

Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.

Men should be what they seem;Or those that be not, would they might seem none!

I might not this believeWithout the sensible and true avouchOf mine own eyes.

O! that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come; But it sufficeth that the day will end, And then the end is known.

I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary self, Pursued my humor not pursuing his, And gladly shunned who gladly fled from me.

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?

Men should be what they seem; Or those that be not, would they might seem none!.

And do so, love, yet when they have devised What strainèd touches rhetoric can lend, Thou, truly fair, wert truly sympathized In true plain words by thy true-telling friend; And their gross painting might be better used Where cheeks need blood; in thee it is abused.

Doubt is a thief that often makes us fear to tread where we might have won.

A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?

This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy of Caesar;He only, in a general honest thoughtAnd common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elementsSo mixd in him that Nature might stand upAnd say to all the world, This was a man!

She will die if you love her not, And she will die ere she might make her love known

See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand!O that I were a glove upon that hand,That I might touch that cheek!

His life was gentle, and the elements / So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up / And say to all the world, / This was a man!

Those that do teach young babes, Do it with gentle means and easy tasks; He might have chid me so; for, in good faith, I am a child to chiding