More William Shakespeare Quotes

1. 'T is better to be lowly born, And range with humb ...
   
2. 'Tis neither here nor there. ...
   
3. A hit, a very palpable hit. ...
   
4. A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! ...
   
5. A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that he ...
   
6. A kind
   Of excellent dumb discourse. ...
   
7. A little more than kin, and less than kind. ...
   
8. A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That ...
   
9. A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then b ...
   
10. A plague o' both your houses ...
    
11. A very ancient and fish-like smell. ...
    
12. A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be ...
    
13. Action is eloquence. ...
    
14. Age cannot wither her, nor custom staleHer infinit ...
    
15. Alas, poor Yorick I knew him Horatio, a fellow of ...
    
16. All the world's a stage,And all the men and women ...
    
17. Although the last, not least. ...
    
18. An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told. ...
    
19. And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew do ...
    
20. And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instrum ...
    
21. And since you know you cannot see yourself, so wel ...
    
22. And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, find ...
    
23. And thus I clothe my naked villainy With old odd e ...
    
24. Angels and ministers of grace defend us.Be thou a ...
    
25. As flies to wanton boys, are we to the godsThey ki ...
    
26. As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quenc ...
    
27. Assume a virtue, if you have it not. ...
    
28. Base men, being in love, have then a nobility in t ...
    
29. Be great in act, as you have been in thought. ...
    
30. Be not afraid of greatness some are born great, so ...
    
31. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou sh ...
    
32. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel but being in, Bear ...
    
33. Beware the ides of March. ...
    
34. Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unki ...
    
35. Brevity is the soul of wit. ...
    
36. But love is blind and lovers cannot see
    The pr ...
    
37. But no perfection is so absolute, That some impuri ...
    
38. But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture,Tel ...
    
39. But to my mind, though I am native here And to the ...
    
40. But, for my own part, it was Greek to me. ...
    
41. But, soft what light through yonder window breaks ...
    
42. By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked thi ...
    
43. Come not within the measure of my wrath. ...
    
44. Come what come may,
    Time and the hour runs thr ...
    
45. Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility ...
    
46. Courage mounteth with occasion. ...
    
47. Cowards die many times before their deathsThe vali ...
    
48. Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war. ...
    
49. Cursed be he that moves my bones. ...
    
50. Double, double toil and trouble Fire burn, and cau ...
    
51. Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief. ...
    
52. Et tu, Brute ...
    
53. Every man has business and desire, Such as it is. ...
    
54. Excellent wretch Perdition catch my soul, But I do ...
    
55. False face must hide what the false heart doth kno ...
    
56. Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing. ...
    
57. Fill all thy bones with aches. ...
    
58. Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the grea ...
    
59. For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with ...
    
60. For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear ...
    
61. For Brutus is an honourable man So are they all, a ...
    
62. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be ...
    
63. For they are yet ear-kissing arguments. ...
    
64. Frailty, thy name is woman ...
    
65. Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger const ...
    
66. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears I c ...
    
67. Friendship is constant in all other things Save in ...
    
68. From the still-vexed Bermoothes. ...
    
69. From this day forward until the end of the world.. ...
    
70. Full fathom five thy father lies;
    Of his bones ...
    
71. Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice take e ...
    
72. Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ...
    
73. God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love ...
    
74. Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the i ...
    
75. Good night, good night parting is such sweet sorro ...
    
76. Hamlet Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in sh ...
    
77. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer t ...
    
78. He hath eaten me out of house and home. ...
    
79. He is not great who is not greatly good. ...
    
80. He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it w ...
    
81. He that commends me to mine own content
    Commen ...
    
82. He that dies pays all debts. ...
    
83. He that is giddy thinks the world turns round. ...
    
84. He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let ...
    
85. He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not ...
    
86. He was my friend, faithful, and just to meBut Brut ...
    
87. He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat. ...
    
88. He who has injured thee was either stronger or wea ...
    
89. Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall de ...
    
90. His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in ...
    
91. Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. ...
    
92. How far that little candle throws his beams So shi ...
    
93. How like a winter hath my absence been From thee, ...
    
94. How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be ...
    
95. How poor are they who have not patience! What woun ...
    
96. How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a ...
    
97. How use doth breed a habit in a man. ...
    
98. I am not bound to please thee with my answers. ...
    
99. I am not merry but I do beguile The thing I am, by ...
    
100. I am wealthy in my friends. ...
     
101. I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. ...
     
102. I did never know so full a voice issue from so emp ...
     
103. I do begin to have bloody thoughts. ...
     
104. I dote on his very absence. ...
     
105. I feel within me a peace above all earthly digniti ...
     
106. I had rather have a fool make me merry, than exper ...
     
107. I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainn ...
     
108. I have heard of your paintings too, well enough Go ...
     
109. I have Immortal longings in me. ...
     
110. I have not slept one wink. ...
     
111. I like this place, and willingly would waste my ti ...
     
112. I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool. ...
     
113. I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, ...
     
114. I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into m ...
     
115. I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and r ...
     
116. I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;
     
     
117. I thank God I am as honest as any man living that ...
     
118. I understand a fury in your words, But not the wor ...
     
119. I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. ...
     
120. I will be correspondent to command, And do my spir ...
     
121. I will make a Star-chamber matter of it. ...
     
122. I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to pe ...
     
123. I wish you all the joy you can wish. ...
     
124. I wish you well and so I take my leave, I Pray yo ...
     
125. I would fain die a dry death. ...
     
126. I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated
     
     
127. If all the year were playing holidays, To sport wo ...
     
128. If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well I ...
     
129. If Love be rough with you, be rough with Love, pri ...
     
130. If there be no great love in the beginning, yet he ...
     
131. If this were played upon a stage now, I could cond ...
     
132. Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word. ...
     
133. In a false quarrel there is no true valour. ...
     
134. In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modes ...
     
135. In time we hate that which we often fear. ...
     
136. Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle ...
     
137. It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love. ...
     
138. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet wor ...
     
139. It is a wise father that knows his own child. ...
     
140. It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their ...
     
141. It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to sup ...
     
142. It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ...
     
143. Jesters do often prove prophets. ...
     
144. Lady you berefit me of all words, Only my blood sp ...
     
145. Lay on, Macduff, And damn'd be him that first crie ...
     
146. Leave her to heaven And to those thorns that in he ...
     
147. Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-heade ...
     
148. Let me not to the marriage of true minds
     Admit ...
     
149. Let the coming hour overflow with joy, and let ple ...
     
150. Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound a ...
     
151. Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the ...
     
152. Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that s ...
     
153. Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, ...
     
154. Like one
     Who having into truth, by telling of ...
     
155. Lord, what fools these mortals be ...
     
156. Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. ...
     
157. Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. ...
     
158. Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their boo ...
     
159. Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference bet ...
     
160. Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. ...
     
161. Love is not love that alters when it alteration fi ...
     
162. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. ...
     
163. Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage. ...
     
164. Men have died from time to time, and worms have ea ...
     
165. Merrily, merrily shall I live now,
     Under the b ...
     
166. Mine honour is my life both grow in one take honou ...
     
167. Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. ...
     
168. My library
     Was dukedom large enough. ...
     
169. My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have ...
     
170. My salad days, When I was green in judgment. ...
     
171. My tongue will tell the anger of mine heart, Or el ...
     
172. My words fly up, my thoughts remain below Words wi ...
     
173. Neither a borrower nor a lender be For loan oft lo ...
     
174. No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity, b ...
     
175. No legacy is so rich as honesty. ...
     
176. No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the s ...
     
177. Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy. ...
     
178. Nothing will come of nothing. ...
     
179. Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince ...
     
180. Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious ...
     
181. Now join your hands, and with your hands your hear ...
     
182. Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an ...
     
183. O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the bright ...
     
184. O, beware, my lord, of jealousy It is the green-ey ...
     
185. O, how this spring of love resembleth
     The unce ...
     
186. O, I am slain! ...
     
187. O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven It hath ...
     
188. O, now, for ever Farewell the tranquil mind farewe ...
     
189. O, woe is me, To have seen what I have seen, see w ...
     
190. Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it ...
     
191. Oh God, that men should put an enemy in their mout ...
     
192. Oh, that way madness lies let me shun that. ...
     
193. Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed ...
     
194. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more ...
     
195. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. ...
     
196. Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are ...
     
197. Our doubts are traitors,And make us lose the good ...
     
198. Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues ...
     
199. Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie. ...
     
200. Out, damned spot out, I say ...
     
201. Pity is the virture of the law, and none but tyran ...
     
202. Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear. ...
     
203. Pray you now, forget and forgive. ...
     
204. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition of ...
     
205. Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. ...
     
206. Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo Deny thy ...
     
207. See first that the design is wise and just that as ...
     
208. Self-loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as sel ...
     
209. Silence is the perfectest herald of joy I were but ...
     
210. Simply the thing I am shall make me live. ...
     
211. Since Cleopatra died, I have liv'd in such dishono ...
     
212. Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. ...
     
213. Small to greater matters must give way. ...
     
214. So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills it ...
     
215. So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him ...
     
216. Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in ...
     
217. Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. ...
     
218. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. ...
     
219. Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost rumi ...
     
220. Strong reasons make strong actions. ...
     
221. Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. ...
     
222. Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toa ...
     
223. That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,
     ...
     
224. The attempt and not the deed Confounds us. ...
     
225. The course of true love never did run smooth. ...
     
226. The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape. ...
     
227. The earth has music for those who listen. ...
     
228. The end crowns all,
     And that old common arbitr ...
     
229. The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. ...
     
230. The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man k ...
     
231. The fringed curtains of thine eye advance. ...
     
232. The game is up. ...
     
233. The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept i ...
     
234. The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make ...
     
235. The hand that hath made you fair hath made you goo ...
     
236. The lady doth protest too much, methinks. ...
     
237. The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept. ...
     
238. The little foolery that wise men have makes a grea ...
     
239. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagi ...
     
240. The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely wha ...
     
241. The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swor ...
     
242. The play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the consci ...
     
243. The Possible's slow fuse is lit By the Imagination ...
     
244. The quality of mercy is not strained It droppeth a ...
     
245. The rest is silence. ...
     
246. The sands are number'd that make up my life. ...
     
247. The soul of this man is in his clothes. ...
     
248. The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefo ...
     
249. The worst is not So long as we can say, This is th ...
     
250. Their understanding Begins to swell and the approa ...
     
251. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio ...
     
252. There is a tide in the affairs of men
     Which ta ...
     
253. There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken ...
     
254. There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking ...
     
255. There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in ...
     
256. There was a star danced, and under that was I born ...
     
257. They have been at a great feast of languages, and ...
     
258. They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, ...
     
259. Things are neither good nor bad but thinking makes ...
     
260. This above all: to thine own self be true, and it ...
     
261. This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May ...
     
262. This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at th ...
     
263. This fellow's wise enough to play the fool, And to ...
     
264. This is the short and the long of it. ...
     
265. This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in o ...
     
266. This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, Th ...
     
267. Those that are good manners at the court are as ri ...
     
268. Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me wi ...
     
269. Thou art the Mars of malcontents. ...
     
270. Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of ...
     
271. Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst be ...
     
272. Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometime ...
     
273. Though inclination be as sharp as will,
     My str ...
     
274. Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't. ...
     
275. Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be trie ...
     
276. Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my ...
     
277. To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, ...
     
278. To be, or not to be that is the question Whether ' ...
     
279. To business that we love, we rise betime and go to ...
     
280. To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first. ...
     
281. To die, to sleep --To sleep, perchance to dream, a ...
     
282. To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the n ...
     
283. To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves p ...
     
284. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in ...
     
285. True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings ...
     
286. True is it that we have seen better days. ...
     
287. Truth is truth To the end of reckoning. ...
     
288. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. ...
     
289. Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what ...
     
290. We are advertis'd by our loving friends. ...
     
291. We burn daylight. ...
     
292. We do not keep the outward form of order, where th ...
     
293. We have seen better days. ...
     
294. We have some salt of our youth in us. ...
     
295. We know what we are, but know not what we may be. ...
     
296. What a deformed thief this fashion is. ...
     
297. What a piece of work is a man how noble in reason ...
     
298. What seest thou else
     In the dark backward and ...
     
299. What the great ones do, the less will prattle of ...
     
300. What's done can't be undone. ...
     
301. What's in a name That which we call a rose By any ...
     
302. What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine. ...
     
303. When griping grief the heart doth wound, and dolef ...
     
304. When he is best, he is a little worse than a man a ...
     
305. When holy and devout religious men Are at their be ...
     
306. When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the ge ...
     
307. When my love swears that she is made of truth, I d ...
     
308. When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But ...
     
309. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this ...
     
310. While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head. ...
     
311. Yet do I fear thy nature It is too full o' the mil ...
     
312. You cram these words into mine ears against the st ...
     
313. Your face is a book, where men may read strange ma ...
     
314. Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole. ...