“It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.”
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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
“Nimble thought can jump both sea and land.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
Source: The Taming of the Shrew
“The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed with Glossarial Notes, Life &c. : in Four Volumes
“Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.”
“His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth.”
Source: Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief.”
Source: The Plays of William Shakspeare ...
“Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls.”
“Rich honesty dwells like a miser, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.”
Source: Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators
“For by his face straight shall you know his heart.”
Source: William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
“A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor.”
Source: Aphorisms from Shakespeare; arranged according to the plays,&c. With a preface and notes, etc. [By C. Lofft.]
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
“Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.”
Source: The works of William Shakespeare
“Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.”
“He that has a house to put's head in has a good head-piece.”
Source: King Lear: Third Series
“Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother: I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth.”
Source: Dramatic Works: From the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.”
“Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.”
“The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.”
Source: Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
“And all my mother came into mine eyes And gave me up to tears.”
Source: King Henry V: Third Series
Source: Sonnets and Other Poems
Source: All's Well That Ends Well
Source: Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition
“For to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad?”