“The smallest worm will turn being trodden on, And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.”
Source: King Henry VI Part 3: Third Series
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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
“Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided 'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.”
“We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we'll not fail.”
Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, with a Glossary
Source: Troilus and Cressida
“But I will be, A bridegroom in my death, and run into't As to a lover's bed.”
“Experience is by industry achieved, And perfected by the swift course of time.”
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Third Series
“Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?”
Source: Romeo and Juliet. Othello. Hamlet. Macbeth. King Lear. Cymbeline. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Anthony and Cleopatra. Troilus and Cressida. Titus Andronicus. Pericles
“I pardon him, as God shall pardon me.”
Source: The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V
“At once, good night- Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once.”
Source: Poems: Third Series
“Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that And manage it against despairing thoughts.”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
“My love is deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, both are infinite.”
“Too much to know is to know naught but fame.”
Source: Love's Labour's Lost
Source: Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems
“All difficulties are easy when they are known.”
Source: Aphorisms from Shakespeare
“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.”
“Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin's fee.”
Source: Hamlet
“And a man's life's no more than to say "One."”
Source: Hamlet
“The sands are number'd that make up my life; Here must I stay, and here my life must end.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakspeare
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators
“Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep.”
Source: Plays of William Shakespeare
Source: The Works of William Shakespeare: The Text Formed from an Entirely New Collation of the Old Editions : with the Various Readings, Notes, a Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage
“My heart is ever at your service.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.”
Source: Double Falsehood: Third Series
“Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.”
Source: Henry V
“A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!”
Source: The Works: The Text Formed from an Entirely New Collation of the Old Editions: with the Various Readings, Notes, a Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage. Notes and emendations to the text of Shakespeare's plays, from early manuscript corrections in a copy of the folio, 1632, in the possession of J. Payne Collier : forming a supplemental volume ...
Source: The works of William Shakespeare
“Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling Extremity out of act.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Pericles. Titus Andronicus. Addenda. Indexes