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Favourite quotes (21448)

“I talk of you:
Why did you wish me milder? would you have me
False to my nature? Rather say I play
The man I am.”

William Shakespeare Coriolanus

Source: Coriolanus

“The rain, it raineth every day.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!”

William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice

Source: The Merchant of Venice

“As merry as the day is long.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Beatrice, Act II, scene i.
Much Ado About Nothing (1598)
Source: Hamlet

“It is my soul that calls upon my name;
How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night,
like softest music to attending ears!
-Romeo”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye
Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet,
And I am proof against their enmity.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“Bloody thou art, bloody will be thy end;
Shame serves thy life and doth thy death attend.”

William Shakespeare Richard III

Source: Richard III

“Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the
fool no where but in's own house.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“Let every man be master of his time.”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.”

William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“It puzzles the will.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“Some grief shows much of love,
But much of grief shows still some want of wit.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“If your mind dislike anything obey it”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“It is far easier for me to teach twenty what were right to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.”

William Shakespeare As You Like It

Source: As You Like It

“Come unto these yellow sands,
And then take hands.
Curtsied when you have and kissed
The wild waves whist,
Foot is featly here and there;
And, sweet sprites, the burden bear.

Ariel's song, scene II, Act I”

William Shakespeare The Tempest

Source: The Tempest

“If one good deed in all my life I did,
I do repent it from my very soul.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“Alas, poor country, almost afraid to know itself! It cannot be called our mother, but our grave.”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“How is it that the clouds still hang on you?”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet