William Shakespeare

For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally.

— William Shakespeare

And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.

— William Shakespeare

Who is Silvia What is she, That all our swains commend her Holy, fair, and wise is she.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here, Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear.

— William Shakespeare

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.

— William Shakespeare

Holy, fair, and wise is she; The heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be.

— William Shakespeare

Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.

— William Shakespeare

Violent fires soon burn out themselves, small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; he tires betimes that spurs too fast.

— William Shakespeare

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men’s blood: I…

— William Shakespeare

“My grief lies all within; and these external manner of laments are merely shadows of the unseen grief that swells with silence…

— William Shakespeare

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness,…

— William Shakespeare

“Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool Art thou, to break into this woman's mood, Tying thine ear to no tongue but…

— William Shakespeare

Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters. To beguile the time, Look like the time;…

— William Shakespeare

“So glad of this as they I cannot be, Who are surprised withal; but my rejoicing At nothing can be more. I'll…

— William Shakespeare

And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be…

— William Shakespeare

To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof little more than a little is by much too much.

— William Shakespeare

He is as valiant as the lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant.

— William Shakespeare

When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.

— William Shakespeare

And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

— William Shakespeare

“Mend your speech a little, Lest you may mar your fortunes.”

— William Shakespeare

He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.

— William Shakespeare

O gentle son, / Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper, sprinkle cool patience.

— William Shakespeare

He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.

— William Shakespeare

“I am in blood so deep that to wade no further is as tedious as to go over”

— William Shakespeare

God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!

— William Shakespeare

Zounds! sir, you are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you.

— William Shakespeare

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

— William Shakespeare

I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.

— William Shakespeare

Was ever woman in this humour wooed? Was ever woman in this humour won?

— William Shakespeare

What to ourselves in passion we propose, The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.

— William Shakespeare

In the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

— William Shakespeare

Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp?

— William Shakespeare

I have nothing Of woman in me; now from head to foot I am marble-constant.

— William Shakespeare

“What bloody man is that? He can report, As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt The newest state.”

— William Shakespeare

“For the gods know I speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge”

— William Shakespeare

Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school.

— William Shakespeare

A thousand moral paintings I can show That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's More pregnantly than words.

— William Shakespeare

Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.

— William Shakespeare

If I lose my honor, I lose myself: better I were not yours Than yours so branchless.

— William Shakespeare