William Shakespeare Quotes

Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey.

In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.

You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves praised.

You, and your lady, Take from my heart all thankfulness!

The nature of bad news affects the teller.

Why, this hath not a finger's dignity.

I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than thou learn a prayer without book.

A fusty nut with no kernel.

Go hang yourself, you naughty mocking uncle!

You cannot make gross sins look clear: To revenge is no valour, but to bear.

'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed

Tis a cruelty to load a fallen man.

If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage.

Thou art sad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife!

I have thrust myself into this maze, Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.

Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.

Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.

Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?

The hind that would be mated by the lion Must die for love.

The pleasing punishment that women bear.

Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not, I care not for thee, Kate: this is no world To play with mammets and to tilt with lips: We must have bloody noses and cracked crowns.

Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art, A good mouth-filling oath.

A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences.

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

Is she not passing fair?

I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true.

Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.

Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust.

The Dear father Would with his daughter speak, commands her service; Are they inform'd of this?

You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him!

For I can raise no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas

He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get.

I will make a Star-chamber matter of it.

Although the last, not least.

From this day forward until the end of the world...we in it shall be remembered...we band of brothers.

Small to greater matters must give way.

Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause.

Their understanding Begins to swell and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shores That now lie foul and muddy.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.

But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute.

Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

Come not within the measure of my wrath.

While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.

Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole.

I do begin to have bloody thoughts.

It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.

What the great ones do, the less will prattle of