Source: As You Like it
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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”
Source: The Merchant of Venice
“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.”
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
“So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.”
“I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew
“A time, methinks, too short To make a world-without-end bargain in.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world”
Source: William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
“This world to me is like a lasting storm,Whirring me from my friends.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare
Source: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
“Our holy lives must win a new world's crown.”
Source: Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes
“All the world's a stage ... and you better have a zoning variance or it's coming down.”
“Give me a staff of honor for mine age, But not a sceptre to control the world.”
Source: The works of William Shakespeare: comprising his dramatic and poetical works, complete
Source: King Richard II: Third Series
Source: The works of William Shakespeare
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Sick in the world's regard, wretched and low.”
Source: Henry IV
“O the world is but a word; were it all yours to give it in a breath, how quickly were it gone!”
Source: Hamlet. Timon of Athens
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“A book? O, rare one, Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment Nobler than that it covers.”
Source: Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems
“What's the news? None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest, Then is doomsday near.”
Source: 1847. Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus
“The sun with one eye vieweth all the world.”
Source: Henry VI, Part One
“I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.”
Source: Macbeth: Third Series
“Look how the world's poor people are amazed at apparitions, signs and prodigies!”
Source: The works of William Shakespeare
“An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England.”
Source: Henry V (Shakespeare Library Classic)
Source: Antony and Cleopatra
“Would I were dead, if God's good will were so, For what is in this world but grief and woe?”
Source: The works of Shakespeare
“So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.”
“A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.”
“[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.”
Source: Shakespeare: A Book of Quotations
“Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye.”
Source: The Life and Death of King John
Source: As You Like it
“Now no way can I stray; Save back to England, all the world's my way.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“Crowns in my purse I have, and goods at home, And so am come abroad to see the world.”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
Source: As You Like it
Source: Antony and Cleopatra
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
“How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”
Source: The Merchant of Venice