“In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long ago betid”
“Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.”
“For I am nothing if not critical.”
“A poor thing, perhaps, but my own.”
“Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds.”
“Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?”
Source: Arden Shakespeare Complete Works
“O gentle son, Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper, sprinkle cool patience.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounce it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.”
“Determine on some course more than a wild exposure to each chance.”
Source: King Lear. Timon of Athens. Titus Andronicus. Macbeth. Coriolanus
“The truest poetry is the most feigning.”
Source: Hamlet, and As you like it, a specimen of a new ed. of Shakespeare [by T. Caldecott]. by T. Caldecott
“The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole.”
“I can no longer live by thinking.”
“Zounds! I was never so bethumped with words since I first called my brother's father dad.”
Source: King John
“France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits the tread of a man's foot.”
Source: Plays ...
“All hoods make not monks.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus
“When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection.”
“But as the unthought-on accident is guilty To what we wildly do, so we profess Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies Of every wind that blows.”
“The people are the city.”
Source: Shakespeare's Complete Works
“Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.”
“Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.”
Source: Hamlet, and As You Like it: A Specimen of a New Edition of Shakespeare
“But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike.”
Source: The Works of Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes : Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected, with Notes, Explanatory, and Critical
“Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity.”
Source: Shakspeare's comedy of the Merchant of Venice: with intr. remarks and notes, adapted for scholastic or private study by J. Hunter
“Promising is the very air o' the time; it opens the eyes of expectation.”
Source: Dramatic Works: Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone
“Light seeking light doth light of light beguile: So, ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.”
Source: The works of Shakespeare
“To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder, In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick, cross lightning.”
Source: The Plays of Shakespeare
“Lions make leopards tame.”
“Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth.”
Source: Merry wives of Windsor. Twelfth night
“Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.”
Source: A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet. 1871
“The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly.”
Source: The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakspeare: With Notes, Original and Selected, and Introductory Remarks to Each Play
“Good luck lies in odd numbers.”
“Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.”
Source: The Works of William Shakespeare: Hamlet. King Lear. Othello
“For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have.”
“War is no strife To the dark house and the detested wife.”
Source: Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems
“Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.”
Source: The works of William Shakespeare
“A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!”
Source: The Plays of Shakespeare
“Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.”
Source: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
“Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity?”
Source: Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“Unquiet meals make ill digestions.”
Source: The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)
“Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction.”
Source: Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra. Timon of Athens. Titus Andronicus
“Mean and mighty, rotting Together, have one dust.”
“Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.”
Source: William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
“It is a basilisk unto mine eye, Kills me to look on't.”
Source: Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words
“Truly the souls of men are full of dread: Ye cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of fear.”
Source: The Works of William Shakespeare: The first, second, and third parts of King Henry VI. The first part of the contention, &c. The true tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the good King Henry the Sixt. King Richard III
“Mine honor is my life, both grow in one. Take honor from me, and my life is done. Then, dear my liege, mine honor let me try; In that I live, and for that I will die.”
Source: The Family Shakspeare, in One Volume: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read in a Family
“I doubt not then but innocence shall makeFalse accusation blush, and tyrannyTremble at patience.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“I stand for judgment: answer: shall I have it?”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare
“I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike.”
Source: Antony and Cleopatra. King Lear
“The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me.”
Source: The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby
“Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“I wonder men dare trust themselves with men.”
