“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
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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
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
“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
“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
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Then love-devouring Death do what he dare.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: King Henry VI, part first. King Henry VI, part second. King Henry VI, part third. A dissertation on the three parts of King Henry VI. King Richard III. Vol. 6
“Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.”
Source: The plays of William Shakspeare...
“One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.”
“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.”
“This fell sergeant, Death, Is strict in his arrest.”
Source: The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators, to which are added notes by S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised and augmented by I. Reed, with a glossarial index