“So they loved as love in twain Had the essence but in one; Two distinct, divisions none.”
Source: Complete dramatic works and miscellaneous poems
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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare
“I'll say she looks as clear as morning roses newly washed with dew.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“We will draw the curtain and show you the picture.”
Source: Twelfth Night Or What You Will
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“Not stepping over the bounds of modesty.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet: A Tragedy in Five Acts
“My love's more richer than my tongue.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With Glossarial Notes, a Sketch of His Life, and an Estimate of His Writings
“These words are razors to my wounded heart.”
Source: The complete works of William Shakespeare: The text regulated by the old copies and by the recently discovered folio of 1632, containing early manuscript emendations. With notes, selected and original, a copious and almost new glossary, the poet's life and portrait
“Can one desire too much of a good thing?”
Source: As You Like it
“Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
“I can express no kinder sign of love, than this kind kiss.”
Source: First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III
“These flowers are like the pleasures of the world.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
“Who are the violets now That strew the lap of the new-come spring?”
“Their lips were four red roses on a stalk.”
Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye.”
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.”
“Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose. For whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed.”
“Blessings of your heart, you brew good ale.”
Source: Prefaces. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor.- v.2. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost.- v.3. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming the shrew.- v.4. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. Winter's tale. Macbeth.- v.5 King John. King Richrd II. King Henry IV, parts I-II.- v.6. King Henry V. King Henry VI, parts I-III.- v.7 King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Coriolanus.- v.8. Julius Cæ
“My crown is in my heart, not on my head.”
Source: Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes
“I am not merry, but I do beguile the thing I am by seeming otherwise.”
Source: Shakespeare: A Book of Quotations
“Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.”
Source: King Henry IV, pt. 1-2. King Henry the fifth
“My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.”
“Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Illustrated)
“The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.”
Source: The Tragedy of Coriolanus
“There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things.”
“My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.”
Source: Shakspeare's Sonnets never before interpreted: his private friends identified: together with a recovered likeness of himself. By G. Massey
“Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?”
Source: The works of William Shakespeare: comprising his dramatic and poetical works, complete
Source: Arden Shakespeare Complete Works