Source: A Choice of Shakespeare's Verse
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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
“We will meet; and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously.”
Source: The works of William Shakespeare
Source: William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
“Believe then, if you please, that I can do strange things. [Act 5, Scene 2]”
Source: As You Like it
“So well thy words become thee as thy wounds.”
Source: Macbeth: A Tragedy
“Were't not for laughing, I should pity him.”
Source: The works of Shakespear, with a glossary, pr. from the Oxford ed. in quarto, 1744 [by Sir T.Hanmer].
“Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse.”
“Before, I loved thee as a brother, John, But now, I do respect thee as my soul.”
Source: Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V
Source: William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
“This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!”
Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format
“Sometimes when we are labeled, when we are branded our brand becomes our calling.”
“Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate, Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving.”
Source: Poems by William Shakespeare
Source: The works of William Shakespeare
“Can I go forward when my heart is here? Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“For man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
“O God of battles! steel my soldiers’ hearts. Possess them not with fear.”
“The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious.”
“You may my Glories and my State depose, But not my Griefes; still am I King of those.”
Source: The Tragedies of Shakespeare: (A Modern Library E-Book)
“Can I go forward when my heart is here?”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“You have too much respect upon the world; They lose it that do buy it with much care”
“Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.”
Source: Select Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Let every man be master of his time.”
Source: Macbeth
Source: The Tragedy of King Lear
“O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare
Source: The Tempest: Third Series
“In nature there's no blemish but the mind. None can be called deformed but the unkind.”
“You're in love? Out Out of love? I love someone. She doesn't love me.”
Source: Making Sense of Hamlet! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)