William Shakespeare

I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely.

— William Shakespeare

“To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come?”

— William Shakespeare

If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage.

— William Shakespeare

I am misanthropos, and hate mankind, For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog, That I might love thee something.

— William Shakespeare

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

— William Shakespeare

Let me confess that we two must be twain, although our undivided loves are one.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.

— William Shakespeare

O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine! To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne? Crystal is muddy. O, how ripe in…

— William Shakespeare

“You should not have believ'd me, for virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it. I lov'd…

— William Shakespeare

O, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy…

— William Shakespeare

“Suppose the ambassador from the French comes back: Tells Harry that the King doth offer him Katherine his daughter; and with her…

— William Shakespeare

He hath disgrac'd me and hind'red me half a million; laugh'd at my losses, mock'd at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted…

— William Shakespeare

“But Montague is bound as well as I, In penalty alike; and 'tis not hard, I think, For men so old as…

— William Shakespeare

“Beshrew your eyes, They have o'erlook'd me and divided me; One half of me is yours, the other half yours, Mine own,…

— William Shakespeare

'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible true, that thou art beauteous truth itself, that thou art lovely. More fairer…

— William Shakespeare

Be collected. No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart There's no harm done.

— William Shakespeare

I fear me you but warm the starvèd snake, Who, cherished in your breasts, will sting your hearts.

— William Shakespeare

Experience is by industry achieved, And perfected by the swift course of time.

— William Shakespeare

“They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.”

— William Shakespeare

Oh, injurious love, that respites me a life, whose very comfort is still a dying horror

— William Shakespeare

The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.

— William Shakespeare

Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, more than quick words, do move a woman's mind.

— William Shakespeare

Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.

— William Shakespeare

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

— William Shakespeare

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

— William Shakespeare

A tardiness in nature, Which often leaves the history unspoke, That it intends to do.

— William Shakespeare

What soilders whey-face? The English for so please you. Take thy face hence.

— William Shakespeare

“As a man thinketh Our remedies in ourselves do lie Which we ascribe to heaven”

— 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

One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.

— William Shakespeare

The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.

— William Shakespeare

It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.

— William Shakespeare

I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me.

— William Shakespeare

“Ci sono più cose in cielo e in terra, Orazio, di quante non ne immagini la tua filosofia.”

— William Shakespeare

I fill up a place, which may be better... when I have made it empty.

— William Shakespeare

To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust; But, in defence, by mercy, 'tis most just.

— William Shakespeare

I am giddy, expectation whirls me round. The imaginary relish is so sweet That it enchants my sense.

— William Shakespeare

I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when they are in great danger I recover them.

— William Shakespeare

Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.

— William Shakespeare