“Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it Without a prompter.”
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).
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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
“I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
“Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face! I had rather lie in the woolen.”
“O, the difference of man and man! To thee a woman's services are due.”
Source: Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare
“So doth the greater glory dim the less: A substitute shines brightly as a king Until a king be by.”
“My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
“Those that do teach young babes Do it with gentle means and easy tasks.”
“What thing, in honor, had my father lost, That need to be revived and breathed in me?”
Source: King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1. King Henry IV, part 2. Henry V. King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3. King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Titus Andronicus. Pericles. Glossary
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English
“We see which way the stream of time doth run.”
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
“Do not speak like a death's-head, do not bid me remember mine end.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall die.”
“Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead!”
Source: The works of William Shakespeare
Source: The Comedy of Errors: Third Series
“Retire me to my Milan, where Every third thought shall be my grave.”
Source: ... The plays and poems of William Shakespeare: accurately printed from the text of the corrected copies, left by the late Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, and Edmond Malone ...
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works
“No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change.”
Source: Shakspere's songs and sonnets, illustr. by J. Gilbert [ed. by H. Staunton. Interleaved.].
Source: The Complete William Shakespeare Collection (Illustrated)
Source: Henry IV
“I that please some, try all, both joy and terror Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error.”
Source: The Winter's Tale: Third Series
“What else may hap, to time I will commit.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare
Source: Timon of Athens
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
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
Source: Antony and Cleopatra
Source: The Dramatic Works and Poems
Source: The works of William Shakespeare
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
“You are made Rather to wonder at the things you hear Than to work any.”
Source: The works of Shakespeare
“Be collected. No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart There's no harm done.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
“Where the greater malady is fixed, The lesser is scarce felt.”
“O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer!”
Source: Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
Source: Titus Andronicus: Third Series
“Adieu, adieu, adieu! remember me.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators
Source: The Plays of William Shakspeare ...
“Mine eyes are full of tears, my heart of grief.”
Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq., and Edmond Malone, Esq., with Mr. Malone's Various Readings; a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, from the Most Eminent Commentators; a History of the Stage, and a Life of Shakspeare; by Alexander Chalmers, F.S.A.
“O madam, my old heart is cracked, it's cracked!”
Source: The Tragedy of King Lear
Source: Othello
“What can be avoided Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?”
Source: Julius Caesar In Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation): BookCaps Study Guide
“O that a lady, of one man refused, Should of another therefore be abused!”
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“I am too old to fawn upon a nurse, Too far in years to be a pupil now.”
Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes
“Our very eyes Are sometimes, like our judgments, blind.”
Source: The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)