William Shakespeare

I love thee, and it is my love that speaks

— William Shakespeare

No man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger.

— William Shakespeare

I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.

— William Shakespeare

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue

— William Shakespeare

Done to death by slanderous tongues.

— William Shakespeare

Even through the hollow eyes of death I spy life peering.

— William Shakespeare

There's nothing in this world can make me joy.

— William Shakespeare

These blessed candles of the night.

— William Shakespeare

“Was ever book containing such vile matter so fairly bound? O that deceit should dwell in such a gorgeous place!”

— William Shakespeare

And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness!

— William Shakespeare

So many miseries have craz'd my voice, That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute.

— William Shakespeare

It is war's prize to take all vantages; And ten to one is no impeach of valor.

— William Shakespeare

“Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer.”

— William Shakespeare

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

— William Shakespeare

Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow.

— William Shakespeare

Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's and truth's.

— William Shakespeare

Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes;…

— William Shakespeare

To bed, to bed; sleep kill those pretty eyes, And give as soft attachment to thy senses, As infants empty of all…

— William Shakespeare

I'll privily away; I love the people, But do not like to stage me to their eyes; Though it do well, I…

— William Shakespeare

You are yoked with a lamb, That carries anger as the flint bears fire; Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spank, And…

— William Shakespeare

The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.

— William Shakespeare

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon…

— William Shakespeare

Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares, And think perchance they'll sell; if not, The lustre of the better yet to…

— William Shakespeare

Love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To…

— William Shakespeare

“What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words.”

— William Shakespeare

You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live

— William Shakespeare

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!

— William Shakespeare

Report me and my cause aright.

— William Shakespeare

“good alone Is good without a name, vileness is so”

— William Shakespeare

Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil.

— William Shakespeare

They have a plentiful lack of wit.

— William Shakespeare

What the great ones do, the less will prattle of

— William Shakespeare

Now I am past all comforts here, but prayer.

— William Shakespeare

A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind.

— William Shakespeare

“His silver skin laced with his golden blood.”

— William Shakespeare

“Master Custard, you must rise and be hanged”

— William Shakespeare

'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed

— William Shakespeare

“For doting, not for loving, pupil mine.”

— William Shakespeare

For my own part, I shall be glad to learn of noble men.

— William Shakespeare

“I must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words.”

— William Shakespeare