William Shakespeare

“Rubbing the poor itch of your opinion, you make yourselves scabs.”

— William Shakespeare

“I'll lock thy heaven from thee. O, that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!”

— William Shakespeare

We should hold day with the Antipodes, If you would walk in absence of the sun.

— William Shakespeare

I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell, To die upon the hand I love so well

— William Shakespeare

“Shame to him whose cruel striking, kills for thoughts of his own liking.”

— William Shakespeare

To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end.

— William Shakespeare

Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools!

— William Shakespeare

Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.

— William Shakespeare

You must not think That we are made of stuff so fat and dull That we can let our beard be shook…

— William Shakespeare

“My particular grief Is of so flood-gate and o'erbearing nature That it engluts and swallows other sorrows, And it is still itself.”

— William Shakespeare

Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind…

— William Shakespeare

“I’ll be no longer guilty of this sin; this sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh,—”

— William Shakespeare

“How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green! ANT. The ground indeed is tawny. SEB. With an eye of green in…

— William Shakespeare

There is none but he Whose being I do fear; and under him My genius is rebuked, as it is said Mark…

— William Shakespeare

Faith, I have been a truant in the law And never yet could frame my will to it, And therefore frame the…

— William Shakespeare

“Where the bee sucks. there suck I: In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the…

— William Shakespeare

The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.

— William Shakespeare

“I talk of dreams, which are the children of an idle brain’.”

— William Shakespeare

It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in it.

— William Shakespeare

“What means this shouting? I do fear, the people Choose Caesar for their king.”

— William Shakespeare

“When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools. He”

— William Shakespeare

“Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.”

— William Shakespeare

I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.

— William Shakespeare

Benvolio- "By my head, here come the Capulets." Mercutio- "By my heel, I care not.

— William Shakespeare

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies

— William Shakespeare

Take her away; for she hath lived too long, To fill the world with vicious qualities.

— William Shakespeare

This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy, this Senior Junior, giant dwarf...Cupid.

— William Shakespeare

But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.

— William Shakespeare

“By this hand, I love thee. Beatrice Use it for my love some other way than swearing by it.”

— William Shakespeare

Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.

— William Shakespeare

“No, sure, my lord, my mother cried, but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born.”

— William Shakespeare

Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love.

— William Shakespeare

Better conquest never canst thou make than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts against giddy, loose suggestions.

— William Shakespeare

There is no more mercy in him than there is milk in a male tiger.

— William Shakespeare

“Make thee another self for love of me, That beauty still may live in thine or thee”

— William Shakespeare

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

— William Shakespeare

“I, sir, am Dromio; command him away. I, sir, am Dromio; pray, let me stay.”

— William Shakespeare

You have too much respect upon the world; They lose it that do buy it with much care

— William Shakespeare

A time, methinks, too short To make a world-without-end bargain in.

— William Shakespeare

Love is blind, it stops lovers seeing the silly things they do.

— William Shakespeare