“He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare
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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
“That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.”
Source: Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V
“Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life is done.”
“It is not night when I do see your face.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
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
“What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say”
Source: The Life and Death of King Richard II
“When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.”
“There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.”
“There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.”
“The coward dies a thousand deaths, the valiant, only once!”
“I am a foe to tyrants, and my country's friend.”
Source: Making Sense of Julius Caesar! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)
“In right and service to their noble country.”
Source: The Works of Shakespeare: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With a Life of the Poet, and Notes, Original and Selected; Together with a Copious Glossary
“Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gain'd my freedom.”
Source: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ultimate Collection: ALL 38 Plays & Complete Poetry (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_
“Let's all cry peace, freedom, and liberty!”
Source: The Tragedie of Julius Caesar
“This liberty is all that I request.”
Source: As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew
“Leave us to our free election.”
Source: Pericles
“They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. Lover's complaint. Passionate pilgrim. Memoirs of Lord Southampton
“Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.”
Source: Measure for Measure
“So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.”
Source: The Works of William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra. Cynbeline. Pericles. Poems
“Keep thy friend Under thy own life's key.”
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
“The band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity.”
Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq. With Glossarial Notes
Source: Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays
“I desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends.”
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 and Writings, by N. Rowe
“To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, with Explanatory Notes: To which is Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words
“Thy friendship makes us fresh.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
Source: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
“There is flattery in friendship.”
Source: The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)