Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
“Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare
Source: The Family Shakespeare: In One Volume, in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family
Source: The Plays of Shakspeare
“So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.”
“Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.”
Source: Love's Labour's Lost
Source: Measure for Measure
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
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
“Two may keep counsel putting one away!”
Source: CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet
“For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have.”
Source: The Plays of Shakespeare
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare
Source: Henry IV
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
Source: The Dramatic Works and Poems
Source: Dramatic Works: From the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“How much an ill word may empoison liking!”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing Thrift Study Edition
“Things may serve long, but not serve ever.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
“Can it be chat modesty may more betray Our sense than woman's lightness?”
“But since the affairs of men rests still incertain, Let's reason with the worst that may befall.”
“All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may.”
Source: The Plays of Shakespeare
Source: Cymbeline
Source: The dramatic works and poems of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of Steevens and Malone, with life, and historical, critical, and explanatory notices by A. Cunningham, a glossary and illustrations
Source: The Plays of Shakespeare from the Text of Dr. S. Johnson: With the Prefaces, Notes, Etc. of Rowe, Pope, Theobald, Hanmer, Warburton, Johnson and Select Notes from Many Other Critics ; Also, the Introduction of the Last Editor Mr. Capell; and a Table Shewing His Various Readings ...
Source: Antony and Cleopatra
Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“Then happy I that love and am beloved, where I may not remove nor be removed.”
Source: A Key to Shakespeare's Sonnets by D. Barnstorff. Translated from the German by T. J. Graham. [With the text.]
Source: Romeo and Juliet
Source: Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life
“The undeserver may sleep when the man of action is called on.”
Source: King Henry IV Part 2: Second Series
Source: The works of Shakespeare in seven volumes
“Haply a woman's voice may do some good When articles too nicely urged be stood on.”
Source: Henry V
“My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
“What else may hap, to time I will commit.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Women may fall when there's no strength in men.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet