William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so…

— William Shakespeare

The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute.

— William Shakespeare

“I have not art to reckon my groans, but that I love thee best, oh, most best, believe it.”

— William Shakespeare

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.

— William Shakespeare

Upon thy cheek I lay this zealous kiss, as seal to the indenture of my love.

— William Shakespeare

“I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.”

— William Shakespeare

I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.

— William Shakespeare

In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime.

— William Shakespeare

Sweet love! Sweet lines! Sweet life! Here is her hand, the agent of her heart; Here is her oath for love, her…

— William Shakespeare

Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain: As, painfully to pore upon a…

— William Shakespeare

They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin; The thing the which is…

— William Shakespeare

“Forgive me this my virtue; For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg- Yea, curb…

— William Shakespeare

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express…

— William Shakespeare

And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy…

— William Shakespeare

Lords, knights and gentlemen, what I should say My tears gainsay; for every word I speak, Ye see I drink the water…

— William Shakespeare

Villains, vipers, damn'd without redemption; Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man; Snakes in my heart-blood warm'd, that sing my heart;…

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!

— William Shakespeare

I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist.

— William Shakespeare

The villany you teach me I shall execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

— William Shakespeare

There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

— William Shakespeare

Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.

— William Shakespeare

Is she worth keeping? Why, she is a pearl Whose price hath launched above a thousand ships

— William Shakespeare

Love's mind of judgment rarely hath a taste: Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.

— William Shakespeare

To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.

— William Shakespeare

Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest ...

— William Shakespeare

“I am gone, though I am here. There is no love in you. Nay, I pray you let me go.”

— William Shakespeare

That island of England breeds very valiant creatures; their mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.

— William Shakespeare

I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve.

— William Shakespeare

“In love? Out- Of love? Out of her favour where I am in love.”

— William Shakespeare

You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both.

— William Shakespeare

The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.

— William Shakespeare

Would I were dead, if God's good will were so, For what is in this world but grief and woe?

— William Shakespeare

Every subject's duty is the Kings, but every subject's soul is his own.

— William Shakespeare

“I do love thee so, That I will shortly send thy soul to heaven”

— William Shakespeare

O, the difference of man and man! To thee a woman's services are due.

— William Shakespeare

There's rosemary and rue. These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. Grace and remembrance be to you.

— William Shakespeare

I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?

— William Shakespeare

Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion.

— William Shakespeare

To persist in doing wrong extenuates not the wrong, but makes it much more heavy.

— William Shakespeare