“Besides, our nearness to the King in love Is near the hate of those love not the King.”
Source: King Richard II: Third Series
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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
“If you be King, why should not I succeed?”
Source: Rose Rage: Adapted from Shakespeare's Henry VI Plays
Source: Select Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators
“Strong reasons make strong actions let us go If you say ay, the king will not say no.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators
Source: Henry V. King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3. King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus. Pericles. King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello
“O King, believe not this hard-hearted man!”
Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Comprising His Dramatic and Poetical Works
Source: The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere: Comedies / ... Shakspere
“Take but degree away, untune that string, and hark, what discord follows!”
“Britain is A world by itself, and we will nothing pay For wearing our own noses.”
Source: The Complete Works of Shakspeare, Revised from the Best Authorities : with a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius
“The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy; his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure.”
Source: Troilus and Cressida
“What need the bridge much broader than the flood?”
Source: The Plays of William Shakspeare ...
“For 'tis the sport to have the engineerHoist with his own petard.”
Source: The Beauties of Shakespeare ... The Third Edition, Corrected, Revised and Enlarged
Source: The works of William Shakespeare
Source: William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
“I'll speak in a monstrous little voice.”
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“Thou hast not half that power to do me harm As I have to be hurt.”
“Murder most foul, as in the best it it; But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.”
“I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so.”
Source: Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Complete Comedies, Histories, Tragedies and Poems
“There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.”
“First Witch He knows thy thought: Hear his speech, but say thou nought.”
Source: Shakspere's Play of Macbeth
Source: As You Like it
Source: Henry IV
Source: Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V
Source: Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello
“Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.”
“Let's meet as little as we can”
Source: As You Like it
Source: Arden Shakespeare Complete Works
“Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.”
“Sweetest nut hath sourest rind.”
Source: As You Like it
“Waste not thy time in windy argument but let the matter drop.”
“To be furious, is to be frighted out of fear.”
Source: The Beauties of Shakspeare ... By the Rev. William Dodd, LL.D.
“Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.”
Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
Source: The Plays of William Shakspeare