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William Shakespeare
1,593 quotes
“My little spirit, see, Sits in a foggy cloud, and stays for me.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, Whoever knocks!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A deed without a name.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I 'll make assurance double sure, And take a bond of fate.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Show his eyes, and grieve his heart; Come like shadows, so depart!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I 'll charm the air to give a sound, While you perform your antic round.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The weird sisters.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“When our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, Uproar the universal peace, confound All unity on earth.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Stands Scotland where it did?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“What, all my pretty chickens and their dam At one fell swoop?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O, I could play the woman with mine eyes And braggart with my tongue.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The night is long that never finds the day.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Out, damned spot! out, I say!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane, I cannot taint with fear.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“My way of life Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but in their stead Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“_Doct._ Not so sick, my lord, As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies, That keep her from her rest. _Macb._ Cure her of that. Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart? _Doct._ Therein the patient Must minister to himself. _Macb._ Throw physic to the dogs: I 'll none of it.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud again.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Hang out our banners on the outward walls; The cry is still, "They come!" our castle's strength Will laugh a siege to scorn.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“My fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir As life were in 't: I have supp'd full with horrors.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life 's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I pull in resolution, and begin To doubt the equivocation of the fiend That lies like truth: "Fear not, till Birnam wood Do come to Dunsinane.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I gin to be aweary of the sun.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Blow, wind! come, wrack! At least we 'll die with harness on our back.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I bear a charmed life.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense: That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Live to be the show and gaze o' the time.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Lay on, Macduff, And damn'd be him that first cries, "Hold, enough!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For this relief much thanks: 't is bitter cold, And I am sick at heart.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“But in the gross and scope of my opinion, This bodes some strange eruption to our state.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Whose sore task Does not divide the Sunday from the week.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“This sweaty haste Doth make the night joint-labourer with the day.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And then it started like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“So have I heard, and do in part believe it. But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The memory be green.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“With an auspicious and a dropping eye, With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage, In equal scale weighing delight and dole.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source