Brevity Quote by William Shakespeare

I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.

— William Shakespeare

“O, from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!”

— William Shakespeare

[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

— William Shakespeare

I will be brief. Your noble son is mad.

— William Shakespeare

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below

— Claudius

To take arms against a sea of troubles.

— William Shakespeare

Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

— William Shakespeare

This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.

— William Shakespeare

You cannot call it love, for at your age the heyday in the blood is tame

— William Shakespeare

Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.

— William Shakespeare

If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt…

— William Shakespeare

This is the very coinage of your brain: this bodiless creation ecstasy.

— William Shakespeare