Source: Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
“Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.”
Source: A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. I.
“He is not great who is not greatly good.”
Source: Aphorisms from Shakespeare
“I am not merry, but I do beguile the thing I am by seeming otherwise.”
“Pray you now, forget and forgive.”
Source: King Lear
“He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get.”
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
“The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators
“I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.”
“Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.”
“I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently.”
Source: The Tempest
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare
“A kind Of excellent dumb discourse.”
Source: The plays: of William Shakespeare, in eight volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators; to which are added notes by Sam. Johnson
“Although the last, not least.”
Source: The plays of William Shakspeare: In twenty-one volumes. With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators. To which are added notes
“Small to greater matters must give way.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men.”
“What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?”
“Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Be great in act, as you have been in thought.”
Source: The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)
Source: The Family Shakspeare ... 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 ...
“Fill all thy bones with aches.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.”
“I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve.”
Source: The Dramatic Works
“I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works
“The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea.”