Soul Quotes by William Shakespeare

Brevity is the soul of wit.

— William Shakespeare

Love denied blights the soul we owe to God.

— William Shakespeare

The soul of this man is his clothes.

— William Shakespeare

Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

— William Shakespeare

My soul is in the sky.

— William Shakespeare

The Eyes are the window to your soul

— William Shakespeare

Oh, God! I have an ill-divining soul!

— William Shakespeare

There is no creature loves me; And if I die, no soul will pity me.

— William Shakespeare

This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven.

— William Shakespeare

You told a lie, an odious damned lie; Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie.

— William Shakespeare

I stalk about her door, like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for waftage.

— William Shakespeare

I have a soul of lead So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.

— William Shakespeare

Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies!

— William Shakespeare

By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.

— William Shakespeare

You have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead.

— William Shakespeare

Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice And could of men distinguish her election, Sh'ath sealed thee for herself.

— William Shakespeare

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks.

— William Shakespeare

I do not set my life at a pin's fee, And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a…

— William Shakespeare

Women are angels, wooing: Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing: That she beloved knows naught, that knows not…

— William Shakespeare

[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

— William Shakespeare

By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand…

— William Shakespeare

GLOUCESTER: I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that…

— William Shakespeare

For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul, If sympathy of love unite…

— William Shakespeare

O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel (Who had no doubt some noble creature in her)…

— William Shakespeare

O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul that, struggling to be free, art more engaged! Help, angels! Make…

— William Shakespeare

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash;…

— William Shakespeare

Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage…

— William Shakespeare

Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls; Conscience is but a work that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the…

— 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

My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is…

— William Shakespeare

“I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtail'd of this…

— William Shakespeare

There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bond in earth, in sea, in sky. The beasts, the fishes, and the…

— William Shakespeare

My story starts at sea, a perilous voyage to an unknown land. A shipwreck. The wild waters roar and heave. The brave…

— William Shakespeare

Through the forest have I gone. But Athenian found I none, On whose eyes I might approve This flower's force in stirring…

— William Shakespeare

Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey…

— William Shakespeare

I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes like…

— William Shakespeare

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry. But were we burd'ned with like weight…

— William Shakespeare

Look what thy soul holds dear, imagine it To lie that way thou goest, not whence thou com'st. Suppose the singing birds…

— William Shakespeare

Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as…

— William Shakespeare

Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones!

— William Shakespeare