“You are full of pretty answers. Have you not been acquainted with goldsmiths' wives and conned them out of rings?” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Diseases desperate grown, By desperate appliance are relieved, Or not at all.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I think he'll be to Rome as is the osprey to the fish, who takes it by sovereignty of nature.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“She is drowned already, sir, with salt water, though I seem to drown her remembrance again with more.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this, for it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Que ella que con su muerte le dice a nuestro César: "Me conquisté yo misma".” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Get you gone, you dwarf, You minimus of hindering knotgrass made, You bead, you acorn!” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“He remembers the first time he saw Olivia, and how he had felt that she cleared the air of all pestilence, and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Beshrew your eyes, They have o'erlook'd me and divided me; One half of me is yours, the other half yours, Mine own,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Totus mundus agit histrionem. (All the World's a Stage.) " [Motto of William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (f. 1599) and its acting company,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“your son has paid the soldier’s price: death. He only lived long enough to become a man, and as soon as he… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Ladies, you deserve To have a temple built you: all the swords In Italy, and her confederate arms, Could not have made… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Were half to half the world by the ears and he Upon my party, I'ld revolt to make Only my wars with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“These are the ushers of Martius: before him He carries noise, and behind him he leaves tears. Death, that dark spirit, in's… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now; Now, while the world is bent my deeds to cross, Join with the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Tis torture and not mercy. Heaven is here, Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog And little mouse, every unworthy thing,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool; a miserable world! As I do live by… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I was not angry since I came to France Until this instant. Take a trumpet, herald; Ride thou unto the horsemen on… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities: For nought so vile that on… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Shakespeare scholars just sigh and consign the book to the great pantheon of revelations .. I am accustomed to fanatics who get… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Marry, if you would put me to verses or to dance for your sake, Kate, why you undid me: for the one,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical! Dove-feather'd raven!… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I do believe, induced by potent circumstances That thou art mine enemy.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“What would you have? Your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“More grief to hide than hate to utter love. Polonius, Hamlet.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“There is magic in the web" Shakespeare (Othello, Act 3, Scene 4)” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Be not self-willed, for thou art much too fair To be death’s conquest and make worms thine heir.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Ci sono più cose in cielo e in terra, Orazio, di quante non ne immagini la tua filosofia.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Hot from hell. Caesar's spirit raging in revenge. Cry,havoc! And let slip the dogs of war.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Strike as thou didst at Caesar; for I know / When though didst hate him worst, thou loved’st him better / Than… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Sweets to the sweet, farewell! I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet’s wife; I thought thy bride-bed to have decked, sweet… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey?” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Fairies, black, grey, green, and white, You moonshine revellers, and shades of night, You orphan heirs of fixed destiny, Attend your office… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh, Your vows to her and me, put in two scales, Will even weigh,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share
I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary… — William Shakespeare Copy Share
Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires. — William Shakespeare Copy Share
“Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep’st so sound. Julius Caesar (2.1.248-251)” — William Shakespeare Copy Share
Have you not heard it said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for naught? — William Shakespeare Copy Share
“Yes, madam: yet I cannot choose but laugh, To think it should leave crying and say 'Ay.' And yet, I warrant, it had upon… — William Shakespeare Copy Share
I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo. — William Shakespeare Copy Share