William Shakespeare Quotes

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks.

O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love!

Muster your wits; stand in your own defence.

thou art the best o' the cut-throats

A Devil, a born Devil on whose nature, nurture can never stick, on whom my pain, humanly taken, all lost, quite lost.

Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the vine destroy?

Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the Dark.

Done to death by slanderous tongue

Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool? Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.

Tell me, daughter Juliet, How stands your dispositions to be married" It is an honor that I dream not of

Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Where souls do couch on flowers we'll hand in hand.

Comfort's in heaven, and we are on the earth

I have supped full with horrors.

A little more than kin, and less than kind.

Under loves heavy burden do I sink. --Romeo

O,speak to me no more;these words like daggers enter my ears.(a fancy way of saying SHUT UP!)" — William Shakespeare "hamlet

Too nice, and yet too true!

I have drunk and seen the spider.

How much salt water thrown away in waste/ To season love, that of it doth not taste.

Too early seen unknown, and known too late!

Let life be short, else shame will be too long.

Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must.

He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. (Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost, IV)

Sycorax has grown into a hoop

The one I love is the son of the one I hate! -Juliet p. 75

Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof! *It’s sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it’s actually very rough when you experience it.*

O, reason not the need!

Coward dogs most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten runs far before them.

Were all the letters sun, I could not see one.

For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation.

Yet this my comfort: when your words are done, My woes end likewise with the evening sun.

Assure thee, if I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it to the last article." --Othello, Act III, Scene iii

A plague on both your houses.

Since mine own doors refuse to entertain me, I'll knock elsewhere, to see if they'll disdain me

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

If she lives till doomsday, she'll burn a week longer than the whole world.

But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.

Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.

I charge thee, hence, and do not haunt me thus.

Cheerily to sea; the signs of war advance: No king of England, if not king of France

Proper deformity shows not in the fiend So horrid as in woman.

So sweet was ne'er so fatal. I must weep. But they are creul tears. This sorrow's heavenly; it strikes where it doth love.

Short summers lightly have a forward spring.

I will do anything, Nerissa, ere I'll be married to a sponge.

Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame.

I hate the murderer, love him murdered.

Ay, but hearken, sir; though the chameleon Love can feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my victuals, and would fain have meat.

And Caesar shall go forth.

If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening.