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Shakespeare's Quotes & Sayings

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There is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in man's commendation with woman than report of valor. — William Shakespeare

Knavery's plain face is never seen till used. — William Shakespeare

So Shakespeare stole; but he did wonderful things with his plunder. He's like somebody who nicks your old socks and then darns them. — Mark Forsyth

But what's so blessed-fair that fears no blot? Thou mayst be false, and yet I know it not. — William Shakespeare

The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. - Romeo — William Shakespeare

Nought's had, all's spent, where our desire is got without content. — William Shakespeare

It's Shakespearean, Bill; lots of the important stuff in Shakespeare happens offstage - you just hear about it. — John Irving

In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, "to be, or not to be, that is the question." In the 21st century, "to code, or not to code, that is the challenge. — Newton Lee

Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker. — Richard Dawkins

Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie. — William Shakespeare

Yet, fortune cannot recompense me better
Than to die well, and not my master's debtor. — William Shakespeare

Kent. Who's there?
Fool. Marry, here's grace and a cod-piece; that's a wise man and a fool. — William Shakespeare

A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood. — William Shakespeare

Prosperity's the very bond of love. — William Shakespeare

I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words. — Frank McCourt

All's well that ends well. — William Shakespeare

Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan the outward habit by the inward man. — William Shakespeare

My love's more richer than my tongue. — William Shakespeare

'Tis brief, my lord ... as woman's love. — William Shakespeare

It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare. — Judi Dench

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind. — William Shakespeare

Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool
Art thou, to break into this woman's mood,
Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own! — William Shakespeare

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind. — 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

It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play. — Mark Rylance

Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger. — William Shakespeare

For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? — William Shakespeare

All the world's a stage ... and you better have a zoning variance or it's coming down. — William Shakespeare

France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits the tread of a man's foot. — William Shakespeare

One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality. — Kenneth Branagh

To me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears. — John Foster

Shakespeare's always on my dance card if it can be. — Kenneth Branagh

I think there's as much profundity and wisdom in Shakespeare, more so in fact, than those in the Bible. — Steve Coogan

Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend. — William Shakespeare

Trust not your daughter's minds By what you see them act. — William Shakespeare

Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically. — Orlando Bloom

He's a soldier; and for one to say a soldier lies, is stabbing. — William Shakespeare

Ambition, the soldier's virtue. — William Shakespeare

Tis a common proof That lowliness is young ambition's ladder - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar — Liaquat Ahamed

They died together; they'll always be remembered together. It's decided, once and for all. He was hers. — Rebecca Serle

To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue. — William Shakespeare

He that has a house to put's head in has a good head-piece. — William Shakespeare

There's small choice in rotten apples. — William Shakespeare

One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she's dead. — William Shakespeare

And she's fair I love. — William Shakespeare

What's in a name, anyway? That which we call a nose by any other name would still smell. — Reduced Shakespeare Company

Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit;
All with me's meet that I can fashion fit. — William Shakespeare

A young man married is a man that's marred. — William Shakespeare

No legacy is so rich as honesty (All's Well That Ends Well) — William Shakespeare

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm. — William Shakespeare

[b]Viola:[/b] I pity you.
[b]Olivia:[/b] That's a degree to love. — William Shakespeare

What's making you sad and your hours so long?
- Not having the thing that makes them short. — William Shakespeare

Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave. — William Shakespeare

She's so conjunctive to my life and soul That, as the star moves not but in his sphere, I could not but by her. The — 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

This is some minx's token, — William Shakespeare

men's eyes were made to look and let them gaze — William Shakespeare

I'm not so naive as to think that everybody always succeeds, right? I mean, half of Shakespeare's stories are tragedies - right? — Michael J. Saylor

One reason why Shakespeare's plays remain so popular is that they're now regularly presented in updated stagings with a contemporary flavor. — Terry Teachout

The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems. — Robert Green Ingersoll

There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave. — William Shakespeare

Sir, he's a good dog, and a fair dog. — William Shakespeare

Here's flowers for you; hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram; The marigold. The Winter's Tale, Act 4, Sc.4 — William Shakespeare

Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds
Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about
There's scarce a bush. — William Shakespeare

Very few of us relate to what it's like to be a hero. But everyone understands what it's like to fail. — Kathleen Tessaro

It's a pity that the rich have more freedom to hang or drown themselves than the rest of us Christians. — William Shakespeare

Why, what's the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness? — William Shakespeare

The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb. — William Shakespeare

My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel;
I know not where I am nor what I do. — William Shakespeare

Middle Tennessee? Really? My bracket is more busted than Screech's face during puberty. — William Shakespeare

What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? — William Shakespeare

This day's black fate on more days doth depend;
This but begins the woe, others must end. — William Shakespeare

It's easy for someone to joke about scars if they've never been cut. — William Shakespeare

I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious. — Rob Delaney

The Prince's fool! Ha, it may be I go under that title because I am merry. Yea, but so I am apt to do myself wrong. — William Shakespeare

Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the vine destroy? — William Shakespeare

Shall I compare you to a summer's day?
You are more lovely and milder,
Rough winds shake the sweet buds of May,
A summer is way to short. — William Shakespeare

Some there be that shadows kiss / Such have but a shadow's bliss — William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's 'Othello' was inspired by Cinthio's 'A Moorish Captain'; his 'Hamlet' came from Saxo Grammaticus's 'Amleth.' — Malorie Blackman

He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf. — William Shakespeare

There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4) — William Shakespeare

Our holy lives must win a new world's crown. — William Shakespeare

Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad. — William Shakespeare

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtue we write in water. — William Shakespeare

I'll lock thy heaven from thee.
O, that men's ears should be
To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! — William Shakespeare

But I will be,
A bridegroom in my death, and run into't
As to a lover's bed. — 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

What's done cannot be undone.
To bed, to bed, to bed. — William Shakespeare

Nothing is or is not unless you happen to think it so. That's what Shakespeare said, and he knew. — Frederick Lenz

It's hard to think that say Shakespeare could have written "The Tempest" when he was young. It seems to be reflective work or retrospective work. — Edward Hirsch

It's the remarkable thing about academics: they look at Shakespeare and always see their own faces in him. — Amanda Craig

I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught. — Rabih Alameddine

Come, night, come, Romeo, come, thou day in night; For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night. Whiter than new snow upon a raven's back. — William Shakespeare

Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes. — Condola Rashad

Today in this household's obsession with researching pointless questions, I can confirm that Shakespeare cannot, in fact, ever have had a banana. — Debra Ferreday

Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation. — William Shakespeare

Conscience is a blushing, shamefaced spirit than mutinies in a man's bosom; it fills one full of obstacles. — William Shakespeare

I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire. — William Shakespeare

You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings
and soar with them above a common bound. — William Shakespeare

What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure. — William Shakespeare