“Thou are the armourer of my heart—”
Source: Antony and Cleopatra
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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
“Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.”
“I cannot, nor I will not hold me still; My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand.”
Source: Macbeth Thrift Study Edition
Source: King Lear
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators: Comprehending a Life of the Poet, and an Enlarged History of the Stage
“Myself will straight aboard, and to the state This heavy act with heavy heart relate.”
Source: The plays (poems) of Shakespeare, ed. by H. Staunton, the illustr. by J. Gilbert engr. by the brothers Dalziel
Source: The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V
“And mind, with my heart in't; and now farewell Till half an hour hence.”
Source: Shakespeare's The Tempest: With Introduction, and Notes Explanatory and Critical. For Use in Schools and Classes
“Weep I cannot; But my heart bleeds.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“All offences come from the heart.”
Source: The chronicle history of Henry the Fift. 1608. The contention of the two famous houses of Lancaster and Yorke, in two parts (no date) The tragedie of Richard the Third. 1612. The most lamentable tragedie of Titus Andronicus. 1611. The history of Troylus and Cresseida. 1609
“Love thyself last, cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty.”
Source: The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakspeare,: With Notes, Original and Selected, and Introductory Remarks to Each Play,
Source: Hamlet: Revised Edition
“The heart hath treble wrong When it is barr'd the aidance of the tongue.”
Source: The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“How easy it is for the proper-false in woman's waxen hearts to set their forms!”
Source: Pericles. Twelfth night. Winter's tale
“My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation.”
Source: Julius Caesar ... With explanatory French notes, by Ad. Brown. Improved with a copious selection of notes from Johnson, Steevens, Malone, Theobald, Warburton, etc
“In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.”
Source: The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight].
Source: Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Venus and Adonis. The rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. The passionate pilgrim. A lover's complaint. Titus Andronicus. Romeus and Juliet. Appendix, glossarial index. Vol. 10
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English
“What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours.”
Source: Sonnets and Other Poems
“My heart suspects more than mine eye can see.”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
“Knit your hearts with an unslipping knot.”
Source: An index to the remarkable passages and words made use of by Shakespeare
Source: Henry IV
“No villainous bounty yet hath passed my heart; Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given.”
Source: Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays
Source: King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series
“Be collected. No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart There's no harm done.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Mine eyes are full of tears, my heart of grief.”
Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq., and Edmond Malone, Esq., with Mr. Malone's Various Readings; a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, from the Most Eminent Commentators; a History of the Stage, and a Life of Shakspeare; by Alexander Chalmers, F.S.A.
“O madam, my old heart is cracked, it's cracked!”
Source: The Tragedy of King Lear
“For a noble heart, the most precious gift becomes poor, when the giver stops loving.”
“O England! Model to thy inward greatness, like little body with a might heart.”
“Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?”
Source: Macbeth