William Shakespeare Quotes

The Weird Sisters, hand in hand,Posters of the sea and land,Thus do go, about, about,Thrice to thine, thrice to mine,And thrice again to make up nine.Peace, the charm's wound up.

~ William Shakespeare

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!Here will we sit and let the sounds of musicCreep in our ears: soft stillness and the nightBecome the touches of sweet harmony.Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heavenIs thick inlaid with patines of bright gold:There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'stBut in his motion like an angel sings,Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins;Such harmony is in immortal souls;But whilst this muddy vesture of decayDoth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.- Lorenzo, Acte V, Scene 1

~ William Shakespeare

Pour on, I will endure.

~ William Shakespeare

The lunatic, the lover, and the poetAre of imagination all compact:One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven,And as imagination bodies forthThe forms of things unknown, the poet's penTurns them to shapes and gives to airy nothingA local habitation and a name.

~ William Shakespeare

So many horrid Ghosts.

~ William Shakespeare

From this day to the ending of the world,But we in it shall be remembered-We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;For he to-day that sheds his blood with meShall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,This day shall gentle his condition;And gentlemen in England now-a-bedShall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaksThat fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.

~ William Shakespeare

Romeo: I dreamt a dream tonight.Mercutio: And so did I.Romeo: Well, what was yours?Mercutio: That dreamers often lie.

~ William Shakespeare

Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.

~ William Shakespeare

...and when he dies, cut him out in little stars, and the face of heaven will be so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no heed to the garish sun.

~ William Shakespeare

You speak an infinite deal of nothing.

~ William Shakespeare

These violent delights have violent endsAnd in their triump die, like fire and powderWhich, as they kiss, consume

~ William Shakespeare

Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

~ William Shakespeare

Some are born great, others achieve greatness.

~ William Shakespeare

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

~ William Shakespeare

All's well that ends well.

~ William Shakespeare

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

~ William Shakespeare

This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

~ William Shakespeare

All causes shall give way: I am in bloodStepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more,Returning were as tedious as go o’er.

~ William Shakespeare

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

~ William Shakespeare

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.

~ William Shakespeare

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.

~ William Shakespeare

And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover,To entertain these fair well-spoken days, —I am determined to prove a villain,And hate the idle pleasures of these days.

~ William Shakespeare

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

~ William Shakespeare

Your face, my thane, is as a book where menMay read strange matters. To beguile the time,Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,But be the serpent under't.

~ William Shakespeare

The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately.

~ William Shakespeare

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

~ William Shakespeare

They lie deadly that tell you have good faces.

~ William Shakespeare

Yet but three come one more.Two of both kinds make up four.Ere she comes curst and sad.Cupid is a knavish lad.Thus to make poor females mad.

~ William Shakespeare

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

~ William Shakespeare

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

~ William Shakespeare

Antonio: Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you? Sebastian: By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of my fate might, perhaps, distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad recompense for your love to lay any of them on you.

~ William Shakespeare

He kills her in her own humor.

~ William Shakespeare

Alack, there lies more peril in thine eyeThan twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet,And I am proof against their enmity.

~ William Shakespeare

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.

~ William Shakespeare

And nothing is, but what is not.

~ William Shakespeare

My Crown is in my heart, not on my head:Not deck'd with Diamonds, and Indian stones:Nor to be seen: my Crown is call'd Content,A Crown it is, that seldom Kings enjoy.

~ William Shakespeare

But Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou love me?Catherine: I cannot tell.Henry: Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask them.

~ William Shakespeare

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

~ William Shakespeare

O, that he were here to write me down an ass! But, masters, remember, that I am an ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass.

~ William Shakespeare

I can call spirits from the vasty deep.Why so can I, or so can any man. But will they come when you do call for them?

~ William Shakespeare