Shakespeare Quotes by William Shakespeare

“In my mind's eye”

— William Shakespeare

“Farewell, sweet playfellow.”

— William Shakespeare

“Et tu, Brute?”

— William Shakespeare

“Love is holy.”

— William Shakespeare

“O ill-starred wench! Pale as your smock!”

— William Shakespeare

Hang there like fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!

— William Shakespeare

“Ambition should be made from sterner stuff.”

— William Shakespeare

“Thou of thyself thy sweet self dost deceive.”

— William Shakespeare

“They say an old man is twice a child”

— William Shakespeare

“Sweet sister, let me live." - Claudio, Act 3 Scene 1”

— William Shakespeare

“The fiend gives the more friendly counsel.”

— William Shakespeare

“I was born to speak all mirth and no matter.”

— William Shakespeare

“Mad I call it, for to define true madness, what is't to be nothing else but mad?”

— William Shakespeare

There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare

— William Shakespeare

“To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life.”

— William Shakespeare

Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find.

— William Shakespeare

“such wanton, wild, and usual slips/ As are companions noted and most known/ To youth and liberty.”

— William Shakespeare

“You mar our labour: keep your cabins:you do assist the storm[...] What cares these roarers for the name of king?”

— William Shakespeare

“Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus, Another thing to fall." - Angelo, Act 2 Scene 1”

— William Shakespeare

“my heart is wondrous light, Since this same wayward girl is so reclaim'd.”

— William Shakespeare

“I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the…

— William Shakespeare

“All causes shall give way: I am in blood Stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as…

— William Shakespeare

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Your fate awaits you. Accept it in body…

— William Shakespeare

“As with all literature, the play should be read through the eyes of the author, as far as this is possible, which…

— William Shakespeare

“Brief as the lightning in the collied night; That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and Earth, And ere a man hath…

— William Shakespeare

“He remembers the first time he saw Olivia, and how he had felt that she cleared the air of all pestilence, and…

— William Shakespeare

“I read that I profess, the Art of Love. Bianca: And may you prove, sir, master of your art! Lucentio: While you,…

— William Shakespeare

We will meet; and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously. Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream. Spoken by Bottom, Act I Sc. 2

— William Shakespeare

“Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and…

— William Shakespeare

“When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; When I behold…

— William Shakespeare

“was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He…

— William Shakespeare

“From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope of the immoderate use…

— William Shakespeare

“For this new-married man approaching here, Whose salt imagination yet hath wrong'd Your well defended honour, you must pardon For Mariana's sake:…

— William Shakespeare

“Let me have war, say I: it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of…

— William Shakespeare

My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseththe disease; Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,…

— William Shakespeare

“By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; since nought so stockish,…

— William Shakespeare

“Life... is a paradise to what we fear of death.”

— William Shakespeare

“You gotta be cruel to be kind.”

— William Shakespeare

“Mother, you have my father much offended.”

— William Shakespeare

“You are full of pretty answers. Have you not been acquainted with goldsmiths' wives and conned them out of rings?”

— William Shakespeare