Quotes
To be, or not to be: that is the question.
William Shakespeare (from Hamlet)
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so".
William Shakespeare (from Hamlet)
"Brevity is the soul of wit".
William Shakespeare (from Hamlet)
"Doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love".
William Shakespeare (from Hamlet)
"Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind".
William Shakespeare (from Hamlet)
"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions".
William Shakespeare (from Hamlet)
"All the world 's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts"
William Shakespeare (from As You Like It)
"Can one desire too much of a good thing?".
William Shakespeare (from As You Like It)
"I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it".
William Shakespeare (from As You Like It)
"How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!".
William Shakespeare (from As You Like It)
"Blow, blow, thou winter wind! Thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude".
William Shakespeare (from As You Like It)
"For ever and a day".
William Shakespeare (from As You Like It)
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool".
William Shakespeare (from As You Like It)
"A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!".
William Shakespeare (from King Richard III)
"Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe".
William Shakespeare (from King Richard III)
"So wise so young, they say, do never live long".
William Shakespeare (from King Richard III)
"Off with his head!"
William Shakespeare (from King Richard III)
"An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told".
William Shakespeare (from King Richard III)
"The king's name is a tower of strength".
William Shakespeare (from King Richard III)
"It is the east, and Juliet is the sun" .
William Shakespeare (from Romeo and Juliet)
"Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow."
William Shakespeare (from Romeo and Juliet)
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet“.
William Shakespeare (from Romeo and Juliet)
"Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast".
William Shakespeare (from Romeo and Juliet)
"Tempt not a desperate man".
William Shakespeare (from Romeo and Juliet)
"See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O that I were a glove upon that hand, that I might touch that cheek!".
William Shakespeare (from Romeo and Juliet)
"Not stepping over the bounds of modesty".
William Shakespeare (from Romeo and Juliet)
"But love is blind, and lovers cannot see".
William Shakespeare (from The Merchant of Venice)
"If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?".
William Shakespeare (from The Merchant of Venice)
"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose".
William Shakespeare (from The Merchant of Venice)
"I like not fair terms and a villain's mind".
William Shakespeare (from The Merchant of Venice)
"Why, then the world 's mine oyster"
William Shakespeare (from The Merry Wives of Windsor)
"This is the short and the long of it".
William Shakespeare (from The Merry Wives of Windsor)
"As good luck would have it".
William Shakespeare (from The Merry Wives of Windsor)
"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall".
William Shakespeare (from Measure for Measure)
"The miserable have no other medicine but only hope".
William Shakespeare (from Measure for Measure)
"He will give the devil his due".
William Shakespeare (from King Henry IV, Part I)
"He hath eaten me out of house and home".
William Shakespeare (from King Henry IV, Part II)
"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown".
William Shakespeare (from King Henry IV, Part II)
"A man can die but once".
William Shakespeare (from King Henry IV, Part II)
"The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on".
William Shakespeare (from King Henry IV, Part III)
"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer".
William Shakespeare (from King Henry IV, Part III)
"Delays have dangerous ends".
William Shakespeare (from King Henry the Sixth, Part I)
"Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed".
William Shakespeare (from King Henry the Sixth, Part I)
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers".
William Shakespeare (from King Henry the Sixth, Part II)
"Small things make base men proud".
William Shakespeare (from King Henry the Sixth, Part II)
"True nobility is exempt from fear".
William Shakespeare (from King Henry the Sixth, Part II)
"Having nothing, nothing can he lose".
William Shakespeare (from King Henry the Sixth, Part III)
"We have seen better days".
William Shakespeare (from Timon of Athens)
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him".
William Shakespeare (from Julius Caesar)
"But, for my own part, it was Greek to me".
William Shakespeare (from Julius Caesar)
"A dish fit for the gods".
William Shakespeare (from Julius Caesar)
"Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war".
William Shakespeare (from Julius Caesar)
"Et tu, Brute!"
William Shakespeare (from Julius Caesar)
"Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings".
William Shakespeare (from Julius Caesar)
"When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff".
William Shakespeare (from Julius Caesar)
"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous".
William Shakespeare (from Julius Caesar)
"For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men".
William Shakespeare (from Julius Caesar)
"As he was valiant, I honor him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him" .
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare (from Julius Caesar)
"There 's daggers in men's smiles".
William Shakespeare (from Macbeth)
"what 's done is done".
William Shakespeare (from Macbeth)
"I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none".
William Shakespeare (from Macbeth)
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair".
William Shakespeare (from Macbeth)
"I bear a charmed life".
William Shakespeare (from Macbeth)
"Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness."
William Shakespeare (from Macbeth)
"Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble."
William Shakespeare (from Macbeth)
"When shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done,
When the battle 's lost and won".
William Shakespeare (from Macbeth)
"If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me".
William Shakespeare (from Macbeth)
"Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under 't."
William Shakespeare (from Macbeth)
"Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
William Shakespeare (from Macbeth)
"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!"
William Shakespeare (from King Lear)
"I am a man more sinned against than sinning".
William Shakespeare (from King Lear)
"My love's more richer than my tongue".
William Shakespeare (from King Lear)
"Nothing will come of nothing."
William Shakespeare (from King Lear)
"Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest, lend less than thou owest".
William Shakespeare (from King Lear)
"The worst is not, So long as we can say, 'This is the worst.' " .
William Shakespeare (from King Lear)
"‘T’is neither here nor there."
William Shakespeare (from Othello)
"I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at".
William Shakespeare (from Othello)
"To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on".
William Shakespeare (from Othello)
"The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief".
William Shakespeare (from Othello)
"The game is up."
William Shakespeare (from Cymbeline)
"I have not slept one wink.".
William Shakespeare (from Cymbeline)
"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them".
William Shakespeare (from Twelfth Night)
"Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better" .
William Shakespeare (from Twelfth Night)
"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, rounded with a little sleep".
William Shakespeare (from The Tempest)
"Men of few words are the best men" .
William Shakespeare (from King Henry the Fifth)
"The course of true love never did run smooth".
William Shakespeare (from A Midsummer Night's Dream)
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind".
William Shakespeare (from A Midsummer Night's Dream)
"Everyone can master a grief but he that has it".
William Shakespeare (from Much Ado About Nothing)
"These words are razors to my wounded heart".
William Shakespeare (from Titus Andronicus)
"What 's gone and what 's past help should be past grief" .
William Shakespeare (from The Winter's Tale)
"You pay a great deal too dear for what's given freely".
William Shakespeare (from The Winter's Tale)
"The common curse of mankind, - folly and ignorance".
William Shakespeare (from Troilus and Cressida)
"Nature teaches beasts to know their friends".
William Shakespeare (from Coriolanus)