“POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words.”
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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through fog and filthy air.”
Source: The works of Shakespear: In six volumes
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare
“I have drunk and seen the spider.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English
“How much salt water thrown away in waste/ To season love, that of it doth not taste.”
Source: Troilus and Cressida. Romeo and Juliet
“Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.”
Source: Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will
“What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her?”
“Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.”
Source: The Plays of William Shakspeare ...
“A pox o’ your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!”
Source: The Tempest: Third Series
“Hot blood begets hot thoughts, And hot thoughts beget Hot deeds, And hot deeds is love.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakspeare
“Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust.”
“where civil blood makes civil hands unclean”
Source: CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet
Source: Love's Labor's Lost
“For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?”
“But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.”
“O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!”
“The one I love is the son of the one I hate! -Juliet p. 75”
“If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes
“Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.”
Source: The Works of Shakespere
Source: The Tragedy of King Lear
“If I be waspish, best beware my sting.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators
Source: The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide