“Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. This above all: to thine own self be true. No legacy is so rich as honesty. Brevity is the soul of wit”
“It is the cowish terror of his spirit that dares not undertake; he'll not feel wrongs which tie him to an answer.”
Source: The Works of Shakespere
“A man should be what he seems.”
“To have seen much and to have nothing is to have rich eyes and poor hands.”
Source: Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye.”
Source: The Life and Death of King John
“Yea from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records.”
“When faced with a sea of troubles, take action, and in so doing end it.”
“For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood.”
“Examine well your blood.”
“The heavens forbid
But that our loves and comforts should increase
Even as our days do grow!”
“Ten masts make not the altitude
Which thou hast perpendicularly fell.
Thy life's a miracle.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Remember thee!
Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat
In this distracted globe.”
“I see a man's life is a tedious one.”
Source: Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems
“The happiest youth, viewing his progress through,
What perils past, what crosses to ensue,
Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.”
“Even through the hollow eyes of death
I spy life peering.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare
“You take my house when you do take the prop
That doth sustain my house; you take my life
When you do take the means whereby I live.”
“My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows, I am roughand lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.”
“I swear again, I would not be a queen
For all the world.”
“I'll read enough
When I do see the very book indeed
Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle;
I am no traitor's uncle, and that word "grace"
In an ungracious mouth is but profane.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators
“Will Fortune never come with both hands full,
But write her fair words still in foulest terms?”
“Give me to drink mandragora.”
“You are not wood, you are not stones, but men;
And being men, hearing the will of Caesar,
It will inflame you, it will make you mad.”
“Say, what abridgement have you for this evening?
What masque, what music? How shall we beguile
The lazy time if not with some delight?”
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have
To wear away this long age of three hours
Between our after-supper and bedtime?”
Source: The works of William Shakespeare
“I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I have
been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.”
Source: As You Like it
“How strange or odd some'er I bear myself,
As I perchance hereafter shall think meet
To put an antic disposition on.”
Source: Hamlet
“My wits begin to turn.”
Source: The Tragedy of King Lear
“Watch tonight, pray tomorrow. Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you!”
Source: Henry IV
“Good God, the souls of all my tribe defend
From jealousy!”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
“I will through and through
Cleanse the foul body of th' infected world,
If they will patiently receive my medicine.”
Source: As You Like it
“One sin, I know, another doth provoke.
Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Good fortune then!
To make me blest or cursed'st among men.”
Source: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ultimate Collection: ALL 38 Plays & Complete Poetry (Including the Biography of the Author): Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Othello, The Tempest, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, The Comedy of Errorsäó_
“So may I, blind fortune leading me,
Miss that which one unworthier may attain,
And die with grieving.”
Source: The works of Shakespeare in seven volumes
“Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and thenthere is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks.”
Source: Shakspere's Werke, herausg. und erklärt von N. Delius. [With] Nachträge und Berichtigungen
“Value dwells not in particular will;
It holds his estimate and dignity
As well wherein 'tis precious of itself
As in the prizer.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare : accurately printed from the text of the corrected copy left by the late George Steevens: with a series of engravings, from original designs of Henry Fuseli, and a selection of explanatory and historical notes, from the most eminent commentators; a history of the stage, a life of Shakespeare, &c. by Alexander Chalmers
“The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen
As is the razor's edge invisible.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“I have nothing
Of woman in me; now from head to foot
I am marble-constant.”
“Nay, we must think men are not gods,
Nor of them look for such observancy
As fits the bridal.”
Source: Othello: Revised Edition
“Tis not a year or two shows us a man:
They are all but stomachs, and we all but food;
They eat us hungerly, and when they are full
They belch us.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
“Women's weapons, water-drops.”
“Haply a woman's voice may do some good
When articles too nicely urged be stood on.”
Source: Henry V
“I had as lief have been myself alone.”
Source: An index to the remarkable passages and words made use of by Shakespeare
“I myself am best
When least in company.”
Source: The Works of Shakespeare: Twelfth-night; or, What you will. The merry wives of Windsor. The taming of the shrew. The comedy of errors
“Bear with my weakness. My old brain is troubled.
Be not disturbed with my infirmity.”
Source: The Tempest
“No villainous bounty yet hath passed my heart;
Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given.”
Source: Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays
“Cold indeed, and labor lost:
Then farewell heat, and welcome frost!”
Source: Midsummer-night's dream. Love's labor's lost. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew
“Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares,
And think perchance they'll sell; if not,
The lustre of the better yet to show
Shall show the better.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: All 214 Plays, Sonnets, Poems & Apocryphal Plays (Including the Biography of the Author): Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Othello, The Tempest, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, The Comedy of Errorsäó_
“The seasons change their manners, as the year
Had found some months asleep and leapt them over.”
Source: King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series
“This blessèd plot, this earth, this realm, this England
This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,
. . .
This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land.”
