“For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.”
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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakspeare
“Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by”
“What is light, if Sylvia be not seen? What is joy if Sylvia be not by?”
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare
“Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties”
Source: The life and beauties of Shakespeare: comprising careful selections from each play, with a general index, digesting them under proper heads
“Love hath made thee a tame snake”
Source: As you like it. All's well that ends well
“I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“In thy youth wast as true a lover, As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow”
“You cannot call it love, for at your age the heyday in the blood is tame”
“She will die if you love her not, And she will die ere she might make her love known”
“Men's vows are women's traitors”
Source: The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)
“Love will not be spurred to what it loathes”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
“They are in the very wrath of love, and they will go together. Clubs cannot part them”
Source: The plays of William Shakspeare: In fifteen volumes. With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators. To which are added, notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The fourth edition. Revised and augmented (with a glossarial index) by the editor of Dodsley's collection of old plays
“What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!”
Source: The plays of William Shakspeare: In fifteen volumes. With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators. To which are added, notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The fourth edition. Revised and augmented (with a glossarial index) by the editor of Dodsley's collection of old plays
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“Lovers ever run before the clock”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: With a Full and Comprehensive Life of the Poet, a History of the Stage, an Introd. to Each Play, Copious Glossarial and Other Notes and References ...
“I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip”
Source: Othello: Revised Edition
“I'll make my heaven in a lady's lap”
Source: The Works of Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes : Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected, with Notes, Explanatory, and Critical
“I humbly do beseech of your pardon, For too much loving you”
“I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell, To die upon the hand I love so well”
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“So they loved as love in twain Had the essence but in one; Two distinct, divisions none.”
Source: Complete dramatic works and miscellaneous poems
Source: The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare
“I'll say she looks as clear as morning roses newly washed with dew.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“We will draw the curtain and show you the picture.”
Source: Twelfth Night Or What You Will
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“Not stepping over the bounds of modesty.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet: A Tragedy in Five Acts
“My love's more richer than my tongue.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With Glossarial Notes, a Sketch of His Life, and an Estimate of His Writings
“These words are razors to my wounded heart.”
Source: The complete works of William Shakespeare: The text regulated by the old copies and by the recently discovered folio of 1632, containing early manuscript emendations. With notes, selected and original, a copious and almost new glossary, the poet's life and portrait
“Can one desire too much of a good thing?”
Source: As You Like it
“Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works