“Come not between the dragon and his wrath.”
“Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Remuneration! O! That's the Latin word for three farthings”
Source: Love's Labour's Lost
“A sad tale's best for winter. I have one of sprites and goblins.”
“Make not your thoughts your prisons.”
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
“Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.”
“Love's best habit is a soothing tongue”
Source: The Complete Sonnets and Poems
“When I waked, I cried to dream again”
“So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.”
“This thing of darkness I acknowlege mine. There is nothing more confining than the prison we don't know we are in.”
“I stalk about her door, like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for waftage.”
Source: The Family Shakspeare: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family
“Against love's fire fear`s frost hath dissolution”
Source: Poems: Third Series
“Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies”
Source: The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare
“If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground”
Source: Complete Works of Shakespeare
“If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark”
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Annotated with Biography and Critical Essay)
“If love be blind, it best agrees with night”
“Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.”
“By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise”
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“Be like you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, with Explanatory Notes: To which is Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words
“And ruin`d love when it is built anew, grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes
“This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long”
“Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity”
“The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.”
Source: Shakespeare: A Book of Quotations
“The chameleon Love can feed on the air”
Source: Two Gentlemen Verona: Third Series
“She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“My love admits no qualifying dross”
Source: Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition
“O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: From the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone, with a Life of the Poet
“Love`s reason`s without reason”
Source: Cymbeline. Othello
“Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods,
Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hear
Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.”
Source: King Henry IV, part 1. King Richard II
“To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue.”
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona in Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation)
“One sees more devils than vast hell can hold”
“Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“In the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush supposed a bear!”
“Be as thou wast wont to be.
See as thou wast wont to see.”
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format
“Come give us a taste of your quality.”
“Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes
“Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian.”
“Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat, and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as an egg for quarrelling.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare
“Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.”
“I am asham'd that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace.”
“Give it an understanding, but no tongue.”
“Let us our lives, our souls,
Our debts, our careful wives,
Our children, and our sins, lay on the King!”
“Flesh and blood,
You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition,
Expell'd remorse and nature, who, with Sebastian-
Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong-
Would here have kill'd your king, I do forgive thee,
Unnatural though thou art.”
Source: The works of William Shakespeare
“There's such divinity doth hedge a king
That treason can but peep to what it would.”
