“Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.”
Source: The plays of William Shakspeare...
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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
“He's all my exercise, my mirth, my matter.”
Source: The Winter's Tale: Third Series
“Men's faults do seldom to themselves appear.”
Source: The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)
Source: Romeo and Juliet: Parallel Texts of Quarto 1 (1597) and Quarto 2 (1599)
“Of all knowledge the wise and good seek most to know themselves.”
Source: Aphorisms from Shakespeare
Source: The Tempest
“The force of his own merit makes his way-a gift that heaven gives for him.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge, That no king can corrupt.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings
“One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.”
“Doubt is a thief that often makes us fear to tread where we might have won.”
“Man and wife, being two, are one in love.”
Source: Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words
“It is the disease of not listening...... that I am troubled with.”
“Know more than other. Work more than other. Expect less than other”
Source: The Poems of William Shakspere: With Facts Connected with His Life
“He is not worthy of the honey-comb, that shuns the hives because the bees have stings.”
Source: The Works of Mr. William Shakespear: In Eight Volumes. Adorn'd with Cuts
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: With a Life of the Poet, Explanatory Foot-notes, Critical Notes, and a Glossarial Index
“I fill up a place, which may be better... when I have made it empty.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
“Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might. Whoever lov'd that lov'd not at first sight.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming of the shrew. All's well that ends well. Pericles, prince of Tyre
“Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently.”
“My father's wit, and my mother's tongue, assist me!”
Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by George Steevens: With a Series of Engravings, from Original Designs of Henry Fusell, and a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes
“Every cloud engenders not a storm.”
Source: First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III
“Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on.”
“To go to bed after midnight is to go to bed betimes”
Source: Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“When the sea was calm all ships alike showed mastership in floating.”
“Let me confess that we two must be twain, although our undivided loves are one.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Illustrated)
“Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.”
“There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.”
Source: The Beauties of Shakespeare; Selected from His Works. To which are Added, the Principal Scenes in the Same Author. The Fifth Edition, Revised and Enlarged
“When most I wink, then do my eyes best see”
Source: Shakespeare's Sonnets