“Women are not In their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure the ne'er-touched vestal.”
Source: Antony and Cleopatra
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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
“I'll make death love me; for I will contend Even with his pestilent scythe.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“I'll look to like; if looking, liking move.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet ...
“To be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour.”
Source: The works of William Shakespeare
Source: Prefaces. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor.- v.2. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost.- v.3. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming the shrew.- v.4. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. Winter's tale. Macbeth.- v.5 King John. King Richrd II. King Henry IV, parts I-II.- v.6. King Henry V. King Henry VI, parts I-III.- v.7 King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Coriolanus.- v.8. Julius Cæ
Source: The works of Shakespeare, with corrections and illustr. from various commentators
Source: The Oxford Shakespeare: Richard II
“O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!”
Source: The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V
“Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil. Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil.”
Source: Twelfth Night
“Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators
“Where I could not be honest, I never yet was valiant.”
Source: The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes
“I can give the loser leave to chide.”
Source: Henry VI, Part Two
“A great cause of the night is lack of the sun.”
Source: Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“Speak on, but be not over-tedious.”
Source: The Plays of William Shakspeare ...
“Such thanks as fits a king's remembrance.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello
“Give me a bowl of wine, In this I bury all unkindness.”
Source: School-Shakspeare; Or, Plays and Scenes from Shakspeare ...: With Glossarial Notes, Selected from the Best Annotators
“Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger”
Source: Werke: Histories: King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV. Part 1. King Henry IV. Part 2. King Henry V.
“Knit your hearts with an unslipping knot.”
Source: An index to the remarkable passages and words made use of by Shakespeare
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works
“If the masses can love without knowing why, they also hate without much foundation.”
“Ay; beauty's princely majesty is such, Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough.”
Source: Works
“He that is truly dedicated to war hath no self-love”
Source: Coriolanus: Second Series
“Love is blind, it stops lovers seeing the silly things they do.”
“He that is thy friend indeed, he will help you in your need.”
“Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.(attributed to)”
“Ideas are the very coinage of your brain.”
Source: The Two Noble Kinsmen