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Favourite quotes (21448)

“for Mercutio's soul
Is but a little way above our heads,
Staying for thine to keep him company:
Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“LEONATO
Neighbours, you are tedious.

DOGBERRY
It pleases your worship to say so, but we are the poor duke's officers; but truly, for mine own part, if I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in
my heart to bestow it all of your worship.”

William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

“For what says Quinapalus? Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.”

William Shakespeare Twelfth Night

Variant: Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.
Source: Twelfth Night

“For who so firm that cannot be seduced?”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that has such people in it!”

William Shakespeare The Tempest

Variant: O, brave new world
that has such people in't!
Source: The Tempest

“So quick bright things come to confusion.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.”

William Shakespeare All's Well That Ends Well

Source: All's Well That Ends Well

“In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility; but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favor'd rage.”

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: Henry V

“You are not worth the dust which the rude wind blows in your face”

William Shakespeare King Lear

Source: King Lear

“Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood.”

William Shakespeare King Lear

Source: King Lear

“Love is not love
Which alters when alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
Oh, no, it is an ever-fixèd mark,
that looks on tempests and is never shaken.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

Source: The Complete Sonnets and Poems

“Let life be short, else shame will be too long.”

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: Henry V

“Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

Source: King Henry IV, Part 1

“I have drunk and seen the spider.”

William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale

Source: The Winter's Tale

“Thou shalt be free
As mountain winds: but then exactly do
All points of my command.”

William Shakespeare The Tempest

Source: The Tempest

“More fools know Jack Fool than Jack Fool knows.”

William Shakespeare King Lear

Source: King Lear

“But she makes hungry
Where she most satisfies…”

William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra

Source: Antony and Cleopatra

“In such business
Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th’ ignorant
More learned than the ears.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betray's
In deepest consequence”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet