Play Quotes by William Shakespeare

The play's the thing.

— William Shakespeare

Play out the play ...

— William Shakespeare

How every fool can play upon the word!

— William Shakespeare

Out, damned spot! out, I say!

— William Shakespeare

If music is the food of love, play on

— William Shakespeare

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?

— William Shakespeare

“Thus play I in one person many people/ And none contented”

— William Shakespeare

Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, Ang'ring itself and others.

— William Shakespeare

Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.

— William Shakespeare

Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.

— William Shakespeare

Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them.

— William Shakespeare

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?

— William Shakespeare

And what’s he then that says I play the villain?

— William Shakespeare

Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.

— William Shakespeare

Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house.

— William Shakespeare

If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.

— William Shakespeare

And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most…

— 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

Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.

— William Shakespeare

“Call me what instrume you will,though you can fret me,yet you cannot play upon me.”

— William Shakespeare

Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we…

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

“Francis Flute, the bellows-mender. FLUTE Here, Peter Quince. QUINCE Flute, you must take Thisby on you. FLUTE What is Thisby? a wandering…

— William Shakespeare

Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster…

— William Shakespeare

Away, you cut-purse rascal! you filthy bung, away! By this wine, I'll thrust my knife in your mouldy chaps, an you play…

— William Shakespeare

'Tis not to make me jealous To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, Is free of speech, sings, plays,…

— William Shakespeare

O no, thy love though much, is not so great, It is my love that keeps mine eye awake, Mine own true…

— William Shakespeare

Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not, I care not for thee, Kate: this is no world To play with mammets…

— William Shakespeare

“Sir, he hath not fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; He hath not eat paper, as it were;…

— William Shakespeare

. . . yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the…

— William Shakespeare

Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants…

— William Shakespeare

I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basalisks; I'll play the orator as well as…

— William Shakespeare

Thus play I in one person many people, And none contented: sometimes am I king; Then treasons make me wish myself a…

— William Shakespeare

Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle; but man,…

— William Shakespeare

Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night? Dost thou desire my slumbers should…

— William Shakespeare

He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As…

— 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

Shakespeare scholars just sigh and consign the book to the great pantheon of revelations .. I am accustomed to fanatics who get…

— William Shakespeare

The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare