Shakespeare Quotes
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Shakespeare Quotes & Sayings
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Great floods have flown From simple sources.
— William Shakespeare
The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly.
— William Shakespeare
Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.
— William Shakespeare
A Loud Laugh Bespeaks a Vacant Mind!
— William Shakespeare
Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.
— Christopher Eccleston
Strike up our drums! Pursue the scatter'd stray.God, and not we, hath safely fought to day. — William Shakespeare
We have seen better days.
— William Shakespeare
Beckett . . . Joyce . . . Proust . . . Shakespeare
— Harold Bloom
O ill-starred wench! Pale as your smock!
— William Shakespeare
Who is't can read a woman?
— William Shakespeare
Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle.
— William Shakespeare
A substitute shines brightly as a kingUntil a king be by, and then his state
Empties itself, as dot an inland brook
Into the main of waters. — William Shakespeare
Is it good? It ain't Shakespeare, but then, Shakespeare wrote Titus Andronicus, so you tell me.
— John Scalzi
All's well that ends well.
— William Shakespeare
Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?
— William Shakespeare
I am not gamesome: I do lack some partof that quick spirit that is in Antony. — William Shakespeare
Mother, I will look to like. If looking liking moves.
— William Shakespeare
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
— William Shakespeare
What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!
— William Shakespeare
I am not merry, but I do beguile the thing I am by seeming otherwise.
— William Shakespeare
I bear a charmed life, which must not yieldTo one of woman born. — William Shakespeare
I thank thee, king, For thy great bounty, that not only givest Me cause to wail but teachest me the way How to lament the cause.
— William Shakespeare
Some falls the means are happier to rise.
— William Shakespeare
The time of life is short;To spend that shortness basely were too long. — William Shakespeare
One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sunNe'er saw her match since first the world begun. — William Shakespeare
If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.
— William Shakespeare
Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursuesPursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues. — William Shakespeare
Marry, sir, she's the kitchen wench and all grease; and I know not what use to put her to but to make a lamp of her and run from her by her own light.
— William Shakespeare
Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries that Thou hast done to me.
Therefore turn and draw. — William Shakespeare
Where no man has gone before - who said that - William Shakespeare?""I've no idea. — Alastair Reynolds
There's small choice in rotten apples.
— William Shakespeare
No one, not even Shakespeare, surpasses Milton in his command of the sound, the music, the weight and taste and texture of English words.
— Philip Pullman
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
— William Shakespeare
Although the last, not least.
— William Shakespeare
There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.
— William Shakespeare
Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago,If thou but think'st him wronged, and mak'st his ear
A stranger to thy thoughts. — William Shakespeare
O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.
— William Shakespeare
No more can I be sever'd from your side, Than can yourself yourself in twain divide:
— William Shakespeare
He's a soldier; and for one to say a soldier lies, is stabbing.
— William Shakespeare
Yea from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records.
— William Shakespeare
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
— William Shakespeare
Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the fear'd.
— William Shakespeare
Yes! I'm also a big fan of the movie '10 Things I Hate About You,' which was also based on Shakespeare.
— Amanda Bynes
( ... ) too much sadness hath congealed your blood,And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy. — William Shakespeare
O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !
— William Shakespeare
Unhappy that I am, I cannot heaveMy heart into my mouth. — William Shakespeare
Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.
— William Shakespeare
This day's black fate on more days doth depend;This but begins the woe, others must end. — William Shakespeare
life is like theater
— William Shakespeare
It's the remarkable thing about academics: they look at Shakespeare and always see their own faces in him.
— Amanda Craig
Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.
— Matthew Pearl
Gently to hear, kindly to judge.
— William Shakespeare
To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown;
But where there is true friendship, there needs none. — William Shakespeare
For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.
— William Shakespeare
A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not.
— William Shakespeare
But Montague is bound as well as I,In penalty alike; and 'tis not hard, I think,
For men so old as we to keep the peace. — William Shakespeare
Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
When once our grace we have forgot, Nothing goes right.
— William Shakespeare
OTHELLO Not Cassio kill'd! then murder's out of tune, And sweet revenge grows harsh. DESDEMONA O, falsely, falsely murder'd!
— William Shakespeare
Trust not your daughter's minds By what you see them act.
— William Shakespeare
I had rather eleven died nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.
— William Shakespeare
Lysimachus: Did you go to 't so young? Were you a gamester at five or at seven?Marina: Earlier too, sir, if now I be one. — William Shakespeare
Report me and my cause aright.
— William Shakespeare
So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.
— William Shakespeare
I prefer a good pair of boots to Shakespeare.
— Leo Tolstoy
What is more miserable than discontent?
— William Shakespeare
Oh, I have passed a miserable night, so full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams!
— William Shakespeare
And shake the yoke of inauspicious starsFrom this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! — William Shakespeare
Such as we are made of, such we be.
— William Shakespeare
The prize of all too precious you.
— William Shakespeare
Thou hast the most unsavoury similes.
— William Shakespeare
If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.
— William Shakespeare
Alas, how love can trifle with itself!
— William Shakespeare
What should such fellows as I do crawling between heaven and earth?
— William Shakespeare
The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.
— William Shakespeare
Or I am mad, or else this is a dream.
— William Shakespeare
I would really love theater. I would love to do Shakespeare, that would be amazing. You know, it's whatever really comes my way.
— William Moseley
All the world's a stage ... and you better have a zoning variance or it's coming down.
— William Shakespeare
Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
— William Shakespeare
Laughing Faces Do Not Mean That There Is Absence Of Sorrow! But It Means That They Have The Ability To Deal With It
— William Shakespeare
No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.
— William Butler Yeats
Dreams are the children of idled minds.
— William Shakespeare
Knock... and ask your heart what it doth know.
— William Shakespeare
How much better to weep at joy than to joy at weeping!
— William Shakespeare
Weed your better judgments of all opinion that grows rank in them.
— William Shakespeare
Be not lost So poorly in your thoughts.
— William Shakespeare
Call me what instrume you will,though you can fret me,yet you cannot play upon me.
— William Shakespeare
God didn't create us with such a huge power of thought and a divine capacity for reason in order for us not to use them,
— Hamlet Shakespeare
I hate the murderer, love him murdered.
— William Shakespeare
My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirr'd; And I myself see not the bottom of it.
— William Shakespeare
O, what damned minutes tells he o'erWho dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet fondly loves! — William Shakespeare
Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold.
— William Shakespeare
Come not within the measure of my wrath.
— William Shakespeare
I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels.
— William Shakespeare
Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death.
— William Shakespeare
In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond him.
— Alexis Denisof
A thousand kisses buys my heart from me;And pay them at thy leisure, one by one. — William Shakespeare
Poor and content is rich, and rich enough
— William Shakespeare