“O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else? And shall I couple Hell?”
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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
“The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart-see, they bark at me.”
Source: The First Quarto of King Lear
Source: Macbeth
“Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse.”
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
“Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.”
“'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay. The bay trees in our country are all wither'd.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
Source: The Late Romances
“Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment.”
Source: The Works of Shakespear, from Mr. Pope's Edition
“We may outrun By violent swiftness And lose by over-running.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Source: Renaissance Acting Editions: The First Part of Henry the Fourth, with the Life and Death of HENRY Sirnamed HOT-SPURRE [King Henry IV, Part 1]
Source: The complete works of William Shakespeare, revised with intr. remarks and notes by S. Phelps, with engr. designed by T.H. Nicholson [and a second engr. title-leaf]. 2 vols. [publ. in parts].
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing; Hamlet
“Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.”
Source: The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide
“Who is so firm that can't be seduced?”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English
“For I am fresh of spirit, and resolved To meet all perils very constantly.”
“O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!”
Source: Tempest
“It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators
“Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.”
Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“...an old man is twice a child.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.”
Source: King Henry VI Part 2: Third Series
“Season your admiration for a while.”
Source: Hamlet, and As you like it, a specimen of a new ed. of Shakespeare [by T. Caldecott]. by T. Caldecott
“The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.”
“Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest.”
“Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured.”
“For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
Source: The works of William Shakespeare