Funny Quotes by William Shakespeare

Every why hath a wherefore.

— William Shakespeare

This thought is as a death.

— William Shakespeare

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— William Shakespeare

“Hark, how hard he fetches breath.”

— William Shakespeare

To beguile the time, look like the time.

— William Shakespeare

There's villainous news abroad.

— William Shakespeare

And she's fair I love.

— William Shakespeare

I have not slept one wink.

— William Shakespeare

The earth has music for those that listen.

— William Shakespeare

How low am I, thou painted maypole? (Hermia to Helena)

— William Shakespeare

You know who you are, but know not who you could be.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Grief best is pleased with grief's society ...

— William Shakespeare

Learning is but an adjunct to ourself, And where we are our learning likewise is.

— William Shakespeare

The nature of bad news affects the teller.

— William Shakespeare

He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get.

— William Shakespeare

It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever…

— William Shakespeare

Doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

— William Shakespeare

“Unless philosophy can make a Juliet, Displant a town, reverse a prince’s doom, It helps not, it prevails not.”

— William Shakespeare

“How now, my sweet creature of bombast! How long is't ago, Jack, since thou saw'st thien own knee?”

— William Shakespeare

To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life: let it come on.

— William Shakespeare

Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.

— William Shakespeare

My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face.

— William Shakespeare

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasance, age full of care; Youth like the summer morn, age…

— William Shakespeare

“and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections,…

— William Shakespeare

“My lord, the queen would speak with you, and presently. HAMLET Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a…

— William Shakespeare

“I will receive it sir with all diligence of spirit. Put your bonnet to his right use, 'tis for the head. OSRIC…

— William Shakespeare

“Nay, 'twill be this hour ere I have done weeping. All the kind of the Launces have this very fault. I have…

— William Shakespeare

Alas, how love can trifle with itself!

— William Shakespeare

Unsubstantial Death is amorous.

— William Shakespeare

Why, thou owest god a death.

— William Shakespeare

I cannot do it without comp[u]ters.

— William Shakespeare

Can we outrun the heavens?

— William Shakespeare

Hereditary sloth instructs me.

— William Shakespeare

A harmless necessary cat.

— William Shakespeare

Ay, but to die, and go we know not where.

— William Shakespeare

The proverb is something musty.

— William Shakespeare

You are strangely troublesome.

— William Shakespeare

For a quart of Ale is a meal for a King.

— William Shakespeare

Nothing comes from doing nothing.

— William Shakespeare