World Quotes by William Shakespeare · Page 3

For some must watch, while some must sleep So runs the world away

— William Shakespeare

“THE WORLD IS A STAGE AND EVERYONE IS AN ACTOR.”

— William Shakespeare

Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you

— William Shakespeare

I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.

— William Shakespeare

Give me a staff of honor for mine age, But not a sceptre to control the world.

— William Shakespeare

Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.

— William Shakespeare

This world to me is like a lasting storm,Whirring me from my friends.

— William Shakespeare

A book? O, rare one, Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment Nobler than that it covers.

— William Shakespeare

The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his…

— William Shakespeare

I am one, my liege, Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have so incensed that I am reckless what…

— William Shakespeare

O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From the world-wearied flesh

— William Shakespeare

Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench; I love her ten times more than e'er I did: O, how I…

— William Shakespeare

... the spring, the summer, The chilling autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world By their increase, now…

— William Shakespeare

World, world, O world! But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee/ Life would not yield to age.

— William Shakespeare

The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the round world Should have shook lions into civil streets,…

— William Shakespeare

And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once That makes…

— William Shakespeare

“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

“o here will i set of my everlasting rest and shake the yoke of innauspicious stars from this world wearied flesh eyes…

— William Shakespeare

ROMEO There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murders in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that…

— William Shakespeare

O good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not…

— William Shakespeare

This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to…

— William Shakespeare

Thus weary of the world, away she hies, And yokes her silver doves; by whose swift aid Their mistress mounted through the…

— William Shakespeare

He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get. I to the world am like…

— William Shakespeare

To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil! Conscience, and grace, to the profoundest pit! I dare damnation: To this point I…

— William Shakespeare

O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world...

— William Shakespeare

I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world

— 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

An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England.

— William Shakespeare

Time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop.

— William Shakespeare

Why, then the world ’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.

— William Shakespeare

What's the news? None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest, Then is doomsday near.

— William Shakespeare

I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.

— William Shakespeare

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

— William Shakespeare

If she lives till doomsday, she'll burn a week longer than the whole world.

— William Shakespeare

All the world is a stage and we are merely players.

— William Shakespeare

So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.

— William Shakespeare

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

— William Shakespeare

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

— William Shakespeare

Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye.

— William Shakespeare

Come the three corners of the world in arms, and we shall shock them.

— William Shakespeare