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William Shakespeare
1,593 quotes
“Your name is great In mouths of wisest censure.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Thy honesty and love doth mince this matter.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Cassio, I love thee; But never more be officer of mine.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“_Iago._ What, are you hurt, lieutenant? _Cas._ Ay, past all surgery.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Reputation, reputation, reputation! Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“_Cas._ Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil. _Iago._ Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well used.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“How poor are they that have not patience!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; 't is something, nothing; 'T was mine, 't is his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Poor and content is rich and rich enough.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“To be once in doubt Is once to be resolv'd.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I 'ld whistle her off and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I am declined Into the vale of years.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad, And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others' uses.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou owedst yesterday.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I swear 't is better to be much abused Than but to know 't a little.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know 't, and he 's not robb'd at all.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O, now, for ever Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars That make ambition virtue! O, farewell! Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war! And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell! Othello's occupation 's gone!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Be sure of it; give me the ocular proof.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“No hinge nor loop To hang a doubt on.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“On horror's head horrors accumulate.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Take note, take note, O world, To be direct and honest is not safe.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“But this denoted a foregone conclusion.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Swell, bosom, with thy fraught, For 't is of aspics' tongues!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont, Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love, Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Our new heraldry is hands, not hearts.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“To beguile many, and be beguil'd by one.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“They laugh that win.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“But yet the pity of it, Iago! O Iago, the pity of it, Iago!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Steep'd me in poverty to the very lips.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“But, alas, to make me A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd cherubin.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O thou weed, Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweet That the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne'er been born.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O Heaven, that such companions thou 'ldst unfold, And put in every honest hand a whip To lash the rascals naked through the world!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“'T is neither here nor there.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“It makes us or it mars us.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Every way makes my gain.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He hath a daily beauty in his life.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“This is the night That either makes me or fordoes me quite.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And smooth as monumental alabaster.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Put out the light, and then put out the light: If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can again thy former light restore Should I repent me; but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“So sweet was ne'er so fatal.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Had all his hairs been lives, my great revenge Had stomach for them all.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source