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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 king
Until 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 part
of 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 yield
To 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 sun
Ne'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 pursues
Pursuing 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

What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet? — Brendan Fraser

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 heave
My 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

I've been hearing about Shakespeare all my life, but I had no idea he really wrote so well; I always suspected him of going largely on his reputation. — Jean Webster

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 stars
From 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'er
Who 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