Shakespeare Quotes

Shakespeare Quote of the day

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

You speak an infinite deal of nothing.

Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.

And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.

Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over.

If I was white I would have been like John Wayne... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!

All's well that ends well.

Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.

You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.

The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.

Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters.

Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end.

The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.

Sweets to the sweet.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!

Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.

Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'

[Thine] face is not worth sunburning.

Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once.

When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.

You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage?

And nothing is, but what is not.

Some are born great, others achieve greatness.

Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.

Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.

My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.

I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.

The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. - Romeo

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.

I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets.

The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.

By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.

He kills her in her own humor.

She moves me not, or not removes at least affection's edge in me.

If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?

O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets!

But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.

If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.

I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.