Famous Quotes by William Shakespeare
- I have touched the highest point of all my greatness,
And from that full meridian of my... More
- Orpheus with his Lute made Trees,
And the Mountaine tops that freeze,
Bow themselves when... More
- I see your brows are full of discontent,
Your hearts of sorrow, and your eyes of tears. More
- I see my reputation is at stake,
My fame is shrewdly gored. More
- The dragon wing of night o’erspreads the earth. More
- ‘Tis certain, greatness, once fallen out with fortune,
Must fall out with men too. What the... More
- My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred,
And I myself see not the bottom of it. More
- Why, my cheese, my digestion, why hast thou not served thyself in to my table, so many meals? More
- In my youth I never did apply
Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood. More
- He that doth the ravens feed,
Yea, providently caters for the sparrow,
Be comfort to my age! More
- Your praise is come too swiftly home before you. More
- My age is as a lusty winter,
Frosty but kindly. More
- I will follow thee
To the last gasp with truth and loyalty. More
- Unregarded age in corners thrown. More
- The two hours’ traffic of our stage. More
- From forth the fatal loins of these two foes,
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life. More
- Men may construe things after their fashion,
Clean from the purpose of the things themselves. More
- Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!
Run hence, proclaim, cry it about the streets! More
- What a fearful night is this!
There’s two or three of us have seen strange sights. More
- Cinna. I am not Cinna the conspirator.
Fourth Plebian. It is no matter, his name’s Cinna!... More
- The old folk, time’s doting chronicles. More
- Methoughts I saw a thousand fearful wrecks,
A thousand men that fishes gnawed... More
- Methoughts a legion of foul fiends
Environed me, and howled in mine ears
Such hideous... More
- O Lord, methought what pain it was to drown,
What dreadful noise of waters in my... More
- O, I have passed a miserable night,
So full of fearful dreams, of ugly sights,
That, as I... More
- Falstaff. I am old, I am old.
Doll Tearsheet. I love thee better than I love e’er a... More
- Falstaff. What wind blew you hither, Pistol?
Pistol. Not the ill wind which blows no man to... More
- The undeserver may sleep when the man of action is called on. More
- O, I do not like that paying back, ‘tis a double labor. More
- God keep lead out of me! More
- That he is old, the more the pity, his white hairs do witness it. More
- There is nothing but roguery to be found in villainous man,
yet a coward is worse than a cup... More
- Do thou amend thy face, and I’ll amend my life. More
- Tut, tut, good enough to toss, food for powder, food for
powder; they’ll fill a pit as well... More
- Beware instinct—the lion will not touch the true prince.
Instinct is a great matter. More
- Let us be Diana’s foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon. More
- Ford. If money go before, all ways do lie open.
Falstaff. Money is a good soldier, sir, and... More
- O proud death,
What feast is toward in thine eternal cell,
That thou so many princes at a... More
- For he was likely, had he been put on,
To have proved most royally. More
- Let four captains
Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage,
For he was likely, had he been... More
- Francisco. For this relief much thanks. ‘Tis bitter cold,
And I am sick at... More
- You come most carefully upon your hour. More
- His bold head
‘Bove the contentious waves he kept, and oared
Himself with his good arms... More
- I saw him beat the surges under him,
And ride upon their backs. He trod the water,
Whose... More
- What we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and... More
- Pause awhile,
And let my counsel sway you in this case. More
- Affliction is enamoured of thy parts,
And thou art wedded to calamity. More
- A lover may bestride the gossamers
That idles in the wanton summer air,
And yet not fall;... More
- Come, wilt thou see me ride?
And when I am a’horseback, I will swear
I love thee... More
- Out of this nettle danger we pluck this flower safety. More
- Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art,
A good mouth-filling oath. More
- Yet this aboundant issue seem’d to me,
But hope of Orphans, and un-fathered fruite,
For... More
- Wedding is great Juno’s crown,
O blessed bond of board and bed!
‘Tis Hymen peoples... More
- Put money in thy purse. More
- I have’t. It is engendered. Hell and night
Must bring this monstrous birth to the world’s... More
- Good God, the souls of all my tribe defend
From jealousy! More
- Though in the trade of war I have slain men,
Yet do I hold it very stuff o’ the... More
- O wretched fool,
That lov’st to make thine honesty a vice!
O monstrous world! Take... More
- In following him, I follow but myself. More
- Thou, old Adam’s likeness, set to dress this garden. More
- 1st Murderer. Where’s thy conscience now?...
2nd Murderer. I’ll not meddle with it. It... More
- Poor fellow never joyed since the price of oats rose, it was
the death of him. More
- I know a trick worth two of that. More
- He’s a very dog to the commonalty. More
- You spotted snakes with double tongue,
Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen.
Newts and... More
- Weaving spiders, come not here;
Hence, you longlegged spinners, hence!
Beetles black... More
- Come, thou shalt go home, and we’ll have flesh for holidays, fish for fasting-days, and... More
- Our sea-walled garden, the whole land,
Is full of weeds, her fairest flowers choked... More
- How now, which of your hips has the most profound sciatica? More
- 1st Lady. Madam, we’ll tell tales.
Queen. Of sorrow or of joy?
1st Lady. Of either,... More
- The big round tears
Coursed one another down his innocent nose
In piteous chase. More
- Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens,
‘Tis just the fashion. More
- The melancholy Jaques. More
- Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out
Upon the brook that brawls along this wood. More
- The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day.
Now spurs the lated traveller apace
To... More
- He is himself alone,
To answer all the city. More
- Men must learn now with pity to dispense,
For policy sits above conscience. More
- Sleep shall neither night nor day
Hang upon his penthouse lid;
He shall live a man... More
- Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn
The power of man; for none of woman... More
- I think this be the most villainous house in all London road for fleas. More
- Here’s a fish hangs in the net like a poor man’s right in the law; ‘twill hardly come out. More
- Thou hast the sweetest face I ever looked on.
Sir, as I have a soul, she is an angel. More
- I never did like molestation view
On the enchafèd flood. More
- What shall he have that killed the deer?
His leather skin and horns to wear.
Then sing... More
- The heavens hold firm
The walls of thy dear honor; keep unshaked
That temple, thy fair... More
- I am one, my liege,
Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world
Hath so incensed that I... More
- The urging of that word “judgment” hath bred a kind of remorse in me. More
- His poor self,
A dedicated beggar to the air,
With his disease of all-shunned... More
- ‘Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers. More
- Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork and... More
- By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes. More
- 3rd Fisherman. I marvel how the fishes live in the sea.
1st Fisherman. Why, as men do a-land:... More
- Macbeth shall never vanquished be until
Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill
Shall... More
- Ingratitude is monstrous, and for the multitude to be
ingrateful were to make a monster of... More
- When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks;
When great leaves fall, then winter is at... More
- Woe to that land that’s governed by a child. More
- There might you have beheld one joy crown another, so and in such manner that it seemed sorrow... More
- If all the world could have seen ‘t, the woe had been universal. More
- Two may keep counsel when the third’s away. More
- Therefore my age is as a lusty winter,
Frosty, but kindly. More
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