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William Shakespeare
1,593 quotes
“I 'll warrant him heart-whole.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Good orators, when they are out, they will spit.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them,--but not for love.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Can one desire too much of a good thing?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For ever and a day.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The horn, the horn, the lusty horn Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“It is meat and drink to me.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“So so" is good, very good, very excellent good; and yet it is not; it is but so so.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“An ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The Retort Courteous; . . . the Quip Modest; . . . the Reply Churlish; . . . the Reproof Valiant; . . . the Countercheck Quarrelsome; . . . the Lie with Circumstance; . . . the Lie Direct.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Your If is the only peacemaker; much virtue in If.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Good wine needs no bush.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
Also quoted by: English proverb (english)
“What a case am I in.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Look in the chronicles; we came in with Richard Conqueror.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I 'll not budge an inch.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“As Stephen Sly and old John Naps of Greece, And Peter Turph and Henry Pimpernell, And twenty more such names and men as these Which never were, nor no man ever saw.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“There 's small choice in rotten apples.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Nothing comes amiss; so money comes withal.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Tush! tush! fear boys with bugs.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And do as adversaries do in law,-- Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“My cake is dough.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,-- Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman oweth to her husband.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“'T were all one That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The hind that would be mated by the lion Must die for love.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Service is no heritage.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He must needs go that the devil drives.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“My friends were poor but honest.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I will show myself highly fed and lowly taught.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“From lowest place when virtuous things proceed, The place is dignified by the doer's deed.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“They say miracles are past.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“All the learned and authentic fellows.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A young man married is a man that 's marr'd.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Make the coming hour o'erflow with joy, And pleasure drown the brim.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“No legacy is so rich as honesty.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Whose words all ears took captive.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source