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Quotes by William Shakespeare

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.
– William Shakespeare
Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole.
– William Shakespeare
This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.
– William Shakespeare
No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en;
In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
– William Shakespeare
I would fain die a dry death.
– William Shakespeare
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.
– William Shakespeare
Come unto these yellow sands,
And then take hands:
Courtsied when you have, and kiss'd
The wild waves whist.
– William Shakespeare
Fill all thy bones with aches.
– William Shakespeare
From the still-vexed Bermoothes.
– William Shakespeare
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
– William Shakespeare
I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently.
– William Shakespeare
I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated
To closeness and the bettering of my mind.
– William Shakespeare
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me
From mine own library with volumes that
I prize above my dukedom.
– William Shakespeare
Like one
Who having into truth, by telling of it,
Made such a sinner of his memory,
To credit his own lie.
– William Shakespeare
The fringed curtains of thine eye advance.
– William Shakespeare
There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple:
If the ill spirit have so fair a house,
Good things will strive to dwell with 't.
– William Shakespeare
What seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of time?
– William Shakespeare
A very ancient and fish-like smell.
– William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
– William Shakespeare
He that dies pays all debts.
– William Shakespeare
A kind
Of excellent dumb discourse.
– William Shakespeare
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
– William Shakespeare
Merrily, merrily shall I live now,
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
– William Shakespeare
Where the bee sucks, there suck I;
In a cowslip's bell I lie.
– William Shakespeare
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
– William Shakespeare
I have no other but a woman's reason:
I think him so, because I think him so.
– William Shakespeare
O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day!
– William Shakespeare
O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible,
As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple.
– William Shakespeare
That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
– William Shakespeare
Come not within the measure of my wrath.
– William Shakespeare
How use doth breed a habit in a man!
– William Shakespeare
What's gone and what's past help
Should be past grief.
– William Shakespeare
Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.
– William Shakespeare
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
– William Shakespeare
The end crowns all,
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it.
– William Shakespeare
If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound 1
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour!
– William Shakespeare
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
– William Shakespeare
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
– William Shakespeare
Have more than thou showest; Speak less than thou knowest.
– William Shakespeare
Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
– William Shakespeare
Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.
– William Shakespeare
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
– William Shakespeare
Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.
– William Shakespeare
Cursed be he that moves my bones.
– William Shakespeare
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
– William Shakespeare
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
– William Shakespeare
O that a man might know the end of this day's business ere it come!
– William Shakespeare
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
– William Shakespeare
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments: love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds.
– William Shakespeare
Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.
– William Shakespeare
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste.
– William Shakespeare
Exit, pursued by a bear.
– William Shakespeare
My tongue will tell the anger of mine heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break.
– William Shakespeare
But love is blind and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit;
For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
To see me thus transformed to a boy.
– William Shakespeare
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
– William Shakespeare
Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
– William Shakespeare
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
– William Shakespeare
When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
– William Shakespeare
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
– William Shakespeare
When a father gives to his son, both laugh when a son gives to his father, both cry.
– William Shakespeare
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
– William Shakespeare
Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
– William Shakespeare
We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
– William Shakespeare
To do a great right do a little wrong.
– William Shakespeare
Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
– William Shakespeare
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
– William Shakespeare
They do not love that do not show their love.
– William Shakespeare
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
– William Shakespeare
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
– William Shakespeare
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
– William Shakespeare
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
– William Shakespeare
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
– William Shakespeare
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
– William Shakespeare
Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds.
– William Shakespeare
Speak low, if you speak love.
– William Shakespeare
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
– William Shakespeare
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
– William Shakespeare
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
– William Shakespeare
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
– William Shakespeare
No, I will be the pattern of all patience I will say nothing.
– William Shakespeare
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
– William Shakespeare
Men's vows are women's traitors!
– William Shakespeare
Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
– William Shakespeare
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
– William Shakespeare
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
– William Shakespeare
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
– William Shakespeare
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
– William Shakespeare
Love is too young to know what conscience is.
– William Shakespeare
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
– William Shakespeare
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
– William Shakespeare
Life every man holds dear but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
– William Shakespeare
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
– William Shakespeare
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
– William Shakespeare
Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
– William Shakespeare
If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
– William Shakespeare
If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
– William Shakespeare
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
– William Shakespeare
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
– William Shakespeare
I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
– William Shakespeare
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
– William Shakespeare