Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: The works of William Shakespeare
“Look to her, Moor, if thou has eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee.”
Source: Othello
“I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist.”
Source: Tempest
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
Source: The works of William Shakespeare
“Believe then, if you please, that I can do strange things. [Act 5, Scene 2]”
Source: As You Like it
“Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Mercutio: "If love be rough with you, be rough with love.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“We should hold day with the Antipodes, If you would walk in absence of the sun.”
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
Source: Romeo and Juliet. Othello. Hamlet. Macbeth. King Lear. Cymbeline. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Anthony and Cleopatra. Troilus and Cressida. Titus Andronicus. Pericles
“Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep.”
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, if you love me, as I think you do, let's kiss and part, for we have much to do”
Source: Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems
“Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way.”
Source: King Lear
“What is light, if Sylvia be not seen? What is joy if Sylvia be not by?”
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
“She will die if you love her not, And she will die ere she might make her love known”
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
Source: Othello
“Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
Source: Sonnets and Other Poems
“If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly.”
“If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.”
“If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet: And Other Plays
“Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.”
Source: The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint
“If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare
“If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.”
“If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes
Source: Arden Shakespeare Complete Works
Source: The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere: Merry wives of Windsor. Twelfth night. As you like it. Measure for measure