“This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet”
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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
“With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls, for stony limits cannot hold love out”
“Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?”
“It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.”
“Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentick Copies, and Revised; with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added, an Essay on the Chronological Order of His Plays; an Essay Relative to Shakspeare and Jonson; a Dissertation on the Three Parts of King Henry VI; an Historical Account of the English Stage; and Notes; by Edmond Malone
“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day”
“O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“Love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“Death is my son-in-law, death is my heir.”
Source: King Lear. Romeo and Juliet
“Death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead!”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
“Then love-devouring Death do what he dare.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
Source: King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet
“If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark”
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Annotated with Biography and Critical Essay)
“Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes
“For naught so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give.”