Source: Arden Shakespeare Complete Works
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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
“A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
“Beauty itself doth of itself persuade the eyes of men without an orator.”
“The soul of this man is his clothes.”
Source: Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.”
Source: Measure for Measure
“Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.”
“O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do.”
“The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony.”
Source: King Richard II: Third Series
“It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.”
Source: Shakspere's Werke: Romeo and Juliet. Cymbeline. Troilus and Cressida. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra
“But most it is presumption in us when the help of heaven we count the act of men.”
Source: The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby
“What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.”
“Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls.”
“Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.”
“There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.”
“Such antics do not amount to a man.”
Source: King Henry V
“No man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger.”
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
“O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch! Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice?”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare
“Men from children nothing differ.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling
“If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare
“The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's fallen out with her husband.”
Source: Coriolanus
“Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.”
Source: The Works: The Text Formed from an Entirely New Collation of the Old Editions: with the Various Readings, Notes, a Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage. Notes and emendations to the text of Shakespeare's plays, from early manuscript corrections in a copy of the folio, 1632, in the possession of J. Payne Collier : forming a supplemental volume ...
“I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.”
“For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men.”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works
“My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
Source: Hamlet
“It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
Source: Arden Shakespeare Complete Works
“You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
Source: The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint
“O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.”
Source: Shakespeare's Complete Works