Language Quotes by William Shakespeare

Good words are better than bad strokes.

— William Shakespeare

Hear the meaning within the word....

— William Shakespeare

“What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words.”

— William Shakespeare

I will be free, even to the uttermost, as I please, in words.

— William Shakespeare

You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse

— William Shakespeare

“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue. But if you mouth it, as…

— William Shakespeare

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

— William Shakespeare

It hurts not the tongue to give fair words.

— William Shakespeare

O the world is but a word; were it all yours to give it in a breath, how quickly were it gone!

— William Shakespeare

I love you more than word can wield the matter, Dearer than eye-sight, space and liberty

— William Shakespeare

Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.

— William Shakespeare

Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The…

— William Shakespeare

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

— William Shakespeare

If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.

— William Shakespeare

“Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.”

— William Shakespeare

Ay, is it not a language I speak?

— William Shakespeare

Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out…

— William Shakespeare

So all my best is dressing old words new.

— William Shakespeare

“Ah, kill me with your weapon, not with words.”

— William Shakespeare

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

— William Shakespeare

The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to…

— William Shakespeare

RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.

— William Shakespeare

“Lips, let sour words go by and language end: What is amiss plague and infection mend! Graves only be men's works and…

— William Shakespeare

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.

— William Shakespeare

Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

— William Shakespeare

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

— William Shakespeare

Delivers in such apt and gracious words that aged ears play truant at his tales; And younger hearings are quite ravished; So…

— William Shakespeare

“A feast of languages ”

— William Shakespeare

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

— William Shakespeare

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men’s blood: I…

— William Shakespeare

“I have no words. My voice is in my sword.”

— William Shakespeare

Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.

— William Shakespeare

“Them that dally nicely with words may quickly make them wanton.”

— William Shakespeare

My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.

— William Shakespeare

Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I will depart…

— William Shakespeare

Words spoken can not be recalled so think twice before you speak.

— William Shakespeare

How long a time lies in one little word?

— William Shakespeare

POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words.

— William Shakespeare