“Every fair from fair sometime declines”
“Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight”
“Truth hath a quiet breast.”
“This thought is as a death.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“For now they kill me with a living death.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“Death-counterfeiting sleep.”
Source: Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words
“The gloomy shade of death.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes
“What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!”
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
“O wretched state! o bosom black as death!”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello
“On pain of death, no person be so bold.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Tired with all these, for restful death I cry.”
“What is thy sentence then but speechless death.”
Source: Winter's tale. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1. King Henry IV, part 2. Henry V. King Henry VI, part 1
“Why, thou owest god a death.”
“Speak me fair in death.”
Source: Shakespeare's Comedy of the Merchant of Venice
“Let me be boiled to death with melancholy.”
Source: The Family Shakspeare ... By T. Bowdler ... Sixth Edition
“Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare
“Whose heart the accustom'd sight of death makes hard.”
Source: As you like it. Taming of the shrew. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night; or, what you will
“Thou ominous and fearful owl of death.”
Source: Henry VI, Part One
“Ay, but to die, and go we know not where.”
“For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.”
“When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover.”
Source: A Key to Shakespeare's Sonnets by D. Barnstorff. Translated from the German by T. J. Graham. [With the text.]
“O Death, made proud with pure and princely beauty!”
Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“Though Death be poor, it ends a mortal woe.”
Source: The Works of Shakespeare: Much ado about nothing. All's well that ends well. The life and death of King John. The life and death of King Richard II
“So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men.”
“Death lies on her like an untimely frost.”
“Death is my son-in-law, death is my heir.”
Source: King Lear. Romeo and Juliet
“Crack'd in pieces by malignant Death.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead!”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
“Where hateful Death put on his ugliest mask.”
Source: The Second Part of Henry IV. Containing His Death and the Coronation of King Henry V.
“When Death doth close his tender dying eyes.”
Source: King Henry the Sixth: Parts I, II, and III
“Till our King Henry had shook hands with Death.”
Source: King Henry VI, part 3; King Richard III
“The sudden hand of Death close up mine eye!”
Source: THE PLAYS OF William Shakspeare, COMPLETE IN EIGHT VOLUMES.: CONTAINING MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, MEASURE FOR MEASURE, TWELFTH NIGHT, LOVE'S LABOURS LOST, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. THE ENGRAVINGS TO THIS VOLUME ARE, TWO SCENES TO EACH PLAY, AND TWO ALLEGORIES. ALLEGORIES. 1. AN INFANT SHAKSPEARE IN THE REALMS OF FANCY. 2. THE COMIC MUSE SURROUNDED BY THE VISIONS OF FANCY
“Unsubstantial Death is amorous.”
“Death rock me asleep.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Then love-devouring Death do what he dare.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.”
“Thou call'st me dog before thou hadst a cause, But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.”
Source: The Works of Mr. William Shakespear: In Eight Volumes. Adorn'd with Cuts
“I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.”
“All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed.”
Source: The Comedy of the Merchant of Venice ...
“If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms.”
“Hopeless and helpless doth Egeon wend, But to procrastinate his liveless end.”
Source: The Works of Shakespear
“He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.”
“Where is your ancient courage? You were used to say extremities was the trier of spirits; That common chances common men could bear; That when the sea was calm all boats alike showed mastership in floating.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators
“Laughing faces do not mean that there is absence of sorrow!
But it means that they have the ability to deal with it”
“Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.”
“The king hath note of all that they intend, by interception which they dream not of.”
“He is well paid that is well satisfied.”
“Nothing comes from doing nothing.”
“My love is as a fever, longing still.”
