Memorable Quotes by William Shakespeare

Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.

— William Shakespeare

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

— William Shakespeare

How use doth breed a habit in a man.

— William Shakespeare

Assume a virtue if you have it not.

— William Shakespeare

This is the short and the long of it.

— William Shakespeare

A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!

— William Shakespeare

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

— William Shakespeare

Frailty, thy name is woman!

— William Shakespeare

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

— William Shakespeare

That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

— William Shakespeare

If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.

— William Shakespeare

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.

— William Shakespeare

Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!

— William Shakespeare

Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.

— William Shakespeare

But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute.

— William Shakespeare

I wish you well and so I take my leave, I Pray you know me when we meet again.

— William Shakespeare

Though inclination be as sharp as will, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound,…

— William Shakespeare

Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most…

— William Shakespeare

How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown!

— William Shakespeare

And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that…

— William Shakespeare

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

— William Shakespeare

It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in…

— William Shakespeare

When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help…

— William Shakespeare

I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my…

— William Shakespeare

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet…

— William Shakespeare

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee…

— William Shakespeare

Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with…

— William Shakespeare

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and…

— William Shakespeare

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

— William Shakespeare

A kind Of excellent dumb discourse.

— William Shakespeare

We have some salt of our youth in us.

— William Shakespeare

I have not slept one wink.

— William Shakespeare

So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!

— William Shakespeare

Small to greater matters must give way.

— William Shakespeare

Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.

— William Shakespeare

My salad days, When I was green in judgment.

— William Shakespeare

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

— William Shakespeare

Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole.

— William Shakespeare

Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear

— William Shakespeare

Beware the ides of March.

— William Shakespeare