Black Quotes by William Shakespeare

in black ink my love may still shine bright.

— William Shakespeare

O wretched state! o bosom black as death!

— William Shakespeare

Hung be the heavens with black! Yield, day, to night!

— William Shakespeare

No visor does become black villainy so well as soft and tender flattery.

— William Shakespeare

An old black ram is tupping your white ewe

— William Shakespeare

Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.

— William Shakespeare

Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables.

— William Shakespeare

Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires: The eyes wink at the hand; yet let that…

— William Shakespeare

Lawn as white as driven snow; Cyprus black as e'er was crow; Gloves as sweet as damask roses.

— William Shakespeare

But pearls are fair; and the old saying is: Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.

— William Shakespeare

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

— William Shakespeare

Fairies, black, grey, green, and white, You moonshine revellers, and shades of night, You orphan heirs of fixed destiny, Attend your office…

— William Shakespeare

O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos,…

— William Shakespeare

This day's black fate on more days doth depend; This but begins the woe, others must end.

— William Shakespeare

Lords, I protest my soul is full of woe That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow. Come, mourn with me…

— William Shakespeare

“All things that we ordained festival, Turn from their office to black funeral; Our instruments to melancholy bells, Our wedding cheer to…

— William Shakespeare

Thine eyes I love, and they as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black, and loving…

— William Shakespeare

Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.' Flatter and praise, commend, extol their…

— William Shakespeare

A good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a black beard will turn white; a curl'd pate will grow bald;…

— William Shakespeare

That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which…

— William Shakespeare

Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue; For all the water in the ocean Can…

— William Shakespeare

Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to…

— William Shakespeare

Seems," madam? Nay, it is; I know not "seems." 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn…

— William Shakespeare

Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black and loving…

— William Shakespeare

Come away, come away, Death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath, I am slain by…

— 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

A good leg will fall, a straight back will stoop, a black beard will turn white, a curled pate will grow bald,…

— William Shakespeare

For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger; At whose approach ghosts wandring here and there…

— 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

In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night…

— William Shakespeare

Look, the world's comforter, with weary gait, His day's hot task hath ended in the west: The owl, night's herald, shrieks-'tis very…

— William Shakespeare