“Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing: Revised Edition
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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
“You Jig, you amble, and you lisp.”
Source: Hamlet
“Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky!”
Source: The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Adapted for Family Reading
Source: King Richard III (Sparklesoup Classics)
“Well, God's above all; and there be souls must be saved, and there be souls must not be saved.”
Source: Othello: Revised Edition
“You told a lie, an odious damned lie; Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie.”
Source: Othello Retold In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide
Source: Love's Labour's Lost
“Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.”
Source: William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
“To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars.”
Source: The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)
“The horn, the horn, the lusty horn Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.”
Source: Pericles: Third Series
Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam Johnson
“Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can trickle when she wounds!”
Source: The Complete Works of W. Shakspere: Illustrated with Many Valuable Literary Notes from Johnson, Steevens, Malone, Drake, Chalmers, Coleridge, Lamb, Schlegel, Hazlitt, Ch. Knight, and Other Distinguished Commentators with Large Introductory Notices Prefixed to Each Play ...
“When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. 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 E. Malone. 10 vols. [in 11 pt.].
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
“Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor”
Source: The plays of William Shakspeare: In fifteen volumes. With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators. To which are added, notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The fourth edition. Revised and augmented (with a glossarial index) by the editor of Dodsley's collection of old plays
“Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks”
Source: Family Shakespeare
“Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button.”
“Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side”
“The gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion.”
“Thou mak'st me merry: I am full of pleasure; let us be jocund”
Source: Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor. Measure for measure
Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“O, she misused me past the endurance of a block.”
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 New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
“Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own”
Source: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
“Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.”
“They have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor”
Source: Twelfth Night