“The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony.”
Source: King Richard II: Third Series
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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
“Un-thread the rude eye of rebellion, and welcome home again discarded faith.”
Source: The Plays of Shakespeare
“Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway, meeting the check of such another day.”
Source: Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems
“Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.”
“It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.”
Source: Shakspere's Werke: Romeo and Juliet. Cymbeline. Troilus and Cressida. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra
“There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.”
“God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!”
Source: The Merry Wives of Windsor
“But most it is presumption in us when the help of heaven we count the act of men.”
Source: The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby
“He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.”
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“Ambition, the soldier's virtue.”
Source: Antony and Cleopatra
“Give obedience where 'tis truly owed.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“Pray you now, forget and forgive.”
Source: King Lear
“What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.”
“'Tis brief, my lord...as woman's love.”
Source: The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works
Source: The Tempest
“My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!”
Source: William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
Source: The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the corrected copies left by G. Steevens and E. Malone, with a selection of notes from the most eminent commentors by A. Chalmers
“God bless thee; and put meekness in thy breast, Love, charity, obedience, and true duty!”
Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“Fortune reigns in gifts of the world.”
Source: As You Like it
Source: Troilus and Cressida
Source: Othello
Source: The Plays of Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet
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
“Heaven would that she these gifts should have, and I to live and die her slave.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare
“What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.”
“And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.”
“We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.”
“Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.”
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI, pts. 1-3
“Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis offer'd, Shall never find it more.”
“We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”
“The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger.”
Source: Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems
“We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.”
“Jesters do oft prove prophets.”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works