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William Shakespeare
1,593 quotes
“Sweets to the sweet: farewell!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I thought thy bride-bed to have deck'd, sweet maid, And not have strew'd thy grave.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Though I am not splenitive and rash, Yet have I something in me dangerous.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Nay, an thou 'lt mouth, I 'll rant as well as thou.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew and dog will have his day.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“There 's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“It did me yeoman's service.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The bravery of his grief did put me Into a towering passion.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“What imports the nomination of this gentleman?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The phrase would be more german to the matter, if we could carry cannon by our sides.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“'T is the breathing time of day with me.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“There 's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 't is not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all. Since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is 't to leave betimes?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I have shot mine arrow o'er the house, And hurt my brother.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Now the king drinks to Hamlet.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A hit, a very palpable hit.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“This fell sergeant, death, Is strict in his arrest.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Report me and my cause aright.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I am more an antique Roman than a Dane.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Absent thee from felicity awhile.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The rest is silence.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Although the last, not least.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Nothing will come of nothing.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Mend your speech a little, Lest it may mar your fortunes.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I want that glib and oily art, To speak and purpose not.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A still-soliciting eye, and such a tongue As I am glad I have not.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“As if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in; and the best of me is diligence.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Striving to better, oft we mar what 's well.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Hysterica passio, down, thou climbing sorrow, Thy element 's below.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Nature in you stands on the very verge Of her confine.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Necessity's sharp pinch!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Let not women's weapons, water-drops, Stain my man's cheeks!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged crimes, Unwhipp'd of justice.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Out-paramoured the Turk.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“'T is a naughty night to swim in.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The green mantle of the standing pool.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“But mice and rats, and such small deer, Have been Tom's food for seven long year.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The prince of darkness is a gentleman.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
Also quoted by: Sir John Suckling
“Poor Tom 's a-cold.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source