William Shakespeare

We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards

— William Shakespeare

Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.

— William Shakespeare

A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.

— William Shakespeare

Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.

— William Shakespeare

“Either thou or I, or both, must go with him.”

— William Shakespeare

How much an ill word may empoison liking!

— William Shakespeare

The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn

— William Shakespeare

Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.

— William Shakespeare

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.

— William Shakespeare

Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it.

— William Shakespeare

“my heart is wondrous light, Since this same wayward girl is so reclaim'd.”

— William Shakespeare

And all my mother came into mine eyes And gave me up to tears.

— William Shakespeare

“No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door, but 'tis enough.”

— William Shakespeare

Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.

— William Shakespeare

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, From earth to heaven.

— William Shakespeare

The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony.

— William Shakespeare

Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered by a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life…

— William Shakespeare

“Lady, shall I lie in your lap? Ophelia: No, my lord. Hamlet: DId you think I meant country matters? Ophelia: I think…

— William Shakespeare

My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind; So flew'd, so sanded; their heads are hung with ears that sweep away…

— William Shakespeare

'Tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow; But no man's virtue nor sufficiency…

— William Shakespeare

Thou art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most lov'd, despis'd! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon.

— William Shakespeare

Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich,…

— William Shakespeare

I can counterfeit the deep tragedian; Speak and look back, and pry on every side, Tremble and start, at wagging of a…

— William Shakespeare

By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death and let it go which…

— William Shakespeare

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

— William Shakespeare

I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.

— William Shakespeare

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

— William Shakespeare

Thou art the Mars of malcontents.

— William Shakespeare

At your age The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble.

— William Shakespeare

So all my best is dressing old words new.

— William Shakespeare

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.

— William Shakespeare

A very ancient and fish-like smell.

— William Shakespeare

A man should be what he seems.

— William Shakespeare

Still constant is a wondrous excellence.

— William Shakespeare

I'll make my heaven in a lady's lap

— William Shakespeare

I had as lief have been myself alone.

— William Shakespeare

O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!

— William Shakespeare

Misery makes sport to mock itself.

— William Shakespeare

The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.

— William Shakespeare

“Now I see the mystery of your loneliness .”

— William Shakespeare