“What is more miserable than discontent?”
Source: The Tragedy of Richard III, with the Landing of Earle Richmond, and the Battell at Bosworth Field
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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
“A dream itself is but a shadow.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings
“Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it.”
“The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet ...
“This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory.”
“Things may serve long, but not serve ever.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
“I am wrapped in dismal thinking.”
Source: Tales from Shakspeare: designed for the use of young persons
“The error of our eye directs our mind. What error leads must err.”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
“Allow not nature more than nature needs.”
Source: King Lear
Source: The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge.”
“Inconstancy falls off ere it begins.”
Source: Shakespeare's Comedy of The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Source: King Richard III
Source: Henry V
“The presence of a king engenders love Amongst his subjects, and his royal friends.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: King Henry V. King Henry VI, Parts I and II
“Kindness nobler ever than revenge.”
Source: The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)
“Light and lust are deadly enemies.”
Source: The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight].
“The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.”
Source: Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“A maiden hath no tongue--but thought.”
Source: The merchant of Venice ...
Source: As You Like It: Third Series
“Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.”
Source: Dictionary of Shakespearian quotations: Exhibiting the most forcible passages illustrative of the various passions, affections and emotions of the human mind
“Miracles are ceased; and therefore we must needs admit the means, how things are perfected.”
Source: King Henry V
“Can it be chat modesty may more betray Our sense than woman's lightness?”
“In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime.”
Source: Aphorisms from Shakespeare
“Let them obey that knows not how to rule.”
Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare. In Ten Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. With an Appendix..
“What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“You must confine yourself within the modest limits of order.”
Source: Twelfth Night: Third Series
“Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, more than quick words, do move a woman's mind.”
“The devil knew what he did when he made men politic; he crossed himself by it.”
“The sweets we wish for, turn to loathed sours, Even in the moment that we call them ours.”
Source: The Works: The Text Formed from an Entirely New Collation of the Old Editions: with the Various Readings, Notes, a Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage
“Good things should be praised.”
Source: The Shakspeare gallery; containing a select series of scenes and characters, accompanied by criticisms and remarks, on 50 (40) plates (designed by H. Singleton).
“The present eye praises the present object.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes
Source: The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)
“When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.”
“I do know when the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows.”
“Love reasons without reason.”
Source: The Works of Shakespear: In Eight Volumes
“But since the affairs of men rests still incertain, Let's reason with the worst that may befall.”
“Forget, forgive; conclude, and be agreed.”
Source: King Richard II: Third Series