“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.”
Source: The Works of Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes. Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected: with Notes, Explanatory, and Critical
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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
“Ay, is it not a language I speak?”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With Glossarial Notes, a Sketch of His Life, and an Estimate of His Writings
“Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.”
Source: Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes
“When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony.”
“To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.”
“When great leaves fall, the winter is at hand.”
Source: Quotations from Shakespeare, a collection of passages selected and arranged by E. Routledge
“Flout 'em, and scout 'em; and scout 'em, and flout 'em; / Thought is free.”
“This is the very coinage of your brain: this bodiless creation ecstasy.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Good counselors lack no clients.”
Source: Making Sense of Measure for Measure! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelli
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.”
“O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.”
Source: Shakespeare's Complete Works
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
“We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“Let never day nor night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord hath done.”
Source: The plays of Shakspere, carefully revised [by J.O.] with a selection of engr. on wood from designs by K. Meadows
“It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking.”
“For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators
“For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally.”
“One pain is lessened by another's anguish.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“Pain pays the income of each precious thing.”
Source: The Complete Sonnets and Poems
“The good I stand on is my truth and honesty.”
Source: Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems
“Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end.”
“Take all the swift advantage of the hours.”
Source: The Works of William Shakespeare: The first, second, and third parts of King Henry VI. The first part of the contention, &c. The true tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the good King Henry the Sixt. King Richard III
“We bring forth weeds when our quick minds lie still.”
Source: Antony and Cleopatra
“Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain.”
Source: Peines d’amour perdues
“What is the city but the people?”
Source: Coriolanus
“Courage and comfort, all shall yet go well”
Source: The Reference Shakespeare: A self-interpreting Edition of Shakespeares Plays containing 11600 References. Compiled by John B. Marsh
“Never shame to hear what you have nobly done”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed with Glossarial Notes, Life &c. : in Four Volumes
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.”
“Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentick Copies, and Revised; with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added, an Essay on the Chronological Order of His Plays; an Essay Relative to Shakspeare and Jonson; a Dissertation on the Three Parts of King Henry VI; an Historical Account of the English Stage; and Notes; by Edmond Malone
“Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow.”
Source: The Family Shakspeare, in One Volume: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read in a Family
“Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.”