William Shakespeare Quotes on Pleasure (22 Quotes)

What pleasure, sir, find we in life, to lock it
From action and adventure?

No profit grows where no pleasure is taken In brief, sir, study what you most affect

Notwithstanding, use your pleasure; if
your love do not persuade you to come, let not my letter.

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

I am constant to my purposes; they follow the King's pleasure.

Bring me a constant woman to her husband,
One that ne'er dream'd a joy beyond his pleasure,
And to that woman, when she has done most,
Yet will I add an honour-a great patience.

Yet fear her, O thou minion of her pleasure!

If either of you both love Katherina,
Because I know you well and love you well,
Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure.

Thee have I not locked up in any chest,
Save where thou art not-though I feel thou art-
Within the gentle closure of my breast,
From whence at pleasure thou mayst come and part;
And even thence thou wilt be stol'n, I fear,
For truth proves thievish for a prize so dear.

Your pleasure was my mere offence, my punishment
Itself, and all my treason; that I suffer'd
Was all the harm I did.

Why, friends, you go to do you know not what Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves Alas, you know not I must tell you then You have forgot the will I told you of. .... Here is the will, and under Caesar's seal. To every Roman citizen he gives, To every several man, seventy-five drachmas. .... Moreover, he hath left you all his walks, His private arbours and new-planted orchards, On this side Tiber he hath left them you, And to your heirs for ever, common pleasures, To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves. Here was a Caesar when comes such another.

Enough; my soul shall then be satisfied.

Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.

I do protest I never injur'd thee,
But love thee better than thou canst devise
Till thou shalt know the reason of my love;
And so good Capulet, which name I tender
As dearly as mine own, be satisfied.

How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere

He that is well paid is well satisfied.

And now what rests but that we spend the time; With stately triumphs, mirthful comic shows, Such as befits the pleasure of the court; Sound drums and trumpets farewell sour annoy; For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.

That god forbid, that made me first your slave,
I should in thought control your times of pleasure,
Or at your hand th' account of hours to crave,
Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure!

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

I will be satisfied; let me see the writing.

I am to wait, though waiting so be hell,
Not blame your pleasure, be it ill or well.

So am I as the rich whose blessèd key
Can bring him to his sweet up-lockèd treasure,
The which he will not every hour survey,
For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure.