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William Shakespeare
1,593 quotes
“Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art translated.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Two lovely berries moulded on one stem.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I have an exposition of sleep come upon me.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For never anything can be amiss, When simpleness and duty tender it.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The true beginning of our end.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The best in this kind are but shadows.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, Nor to one place.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“You have too much respect upon the world: They lose it that do buy it with much care.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,-- A stage, where every man must play a part; And mine a sad one.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft, I shot his fellow of the selfsame flight The selfsame way, with more advised watch, To find the other forth; and by adventuring both, I oft found both.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He doth nothing but talk of his horse.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“God, made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I dote on his very absence.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you. What news on the Rialto?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. He hates our sacred nation, and he rails, Even there where merchants most do congregate.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key, With bated breath and whispering humbleness.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O Father Abram! what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect The thoughts of others!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The young gentleman, according to Fates and Destinies and such odd sayings, the Sisters Three and such branches of learning, is indeed deceased; or, as you would say in plain terms, gone to heaven.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The very staff of my age, my very prop.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“An honest exceeding poor man.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“In the twinkling of an eye.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
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