“Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.”
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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
“You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“The ides of March are come. Soothsayer: Ay, Caesar; but not gone.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
Source: Much Ado About Nothing: Literary Touchstone Classic
Source: Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling
“All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide, By self-example mayst thou be denied.”
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_
“When truth kills truth, O devilish holy fray!”
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Sparklesoup Classics)
“That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.”
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
“I am indeed not her fool, but her corrupter of words. (Act III, sc. I, 37-38)”
“You are an alchemist; make gold of that.”
Source: Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays
“That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)”
Source: Antony and Cleopatra
“For what good turn? Messenger: For the best turn of the bed.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Deluxe Annotated: Suitable for Home Reading, Academic Study, and Dramatic Productions
Source: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Source: The Tempest
“Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.”
Source: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Sparklesoup Classics)
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes
“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”
“He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.”
“Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.”
“And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.”
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format
Source: Arden Shakespeare Complete Works
“it is not enough to speak, but to speak truee”
Source: William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
Source: The plays: of William Shakespeare, in eight volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators; to which are added notes by Sam. Johnson
“Which can say more than this rich praise, that you alone are you?”
“Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love.”
“Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.”
Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare: Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost