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Favourite quotes (21448)

“This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit,
Which gives men stomach to digest his words
With better appetite.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

Source: Julius Caesar

“Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety."
Antony and Cleopatra (II. ii) ~William Shakespeare”

William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra

Source: Antony and Cleopatra

“Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia,
And therefore I forbid my tears.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“Be not afraid of greatness.”

William Shakespeare Twelfth Night

Source: Twelfth Night

“I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter
and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.(IAGO, ActI, SceneI)”

William Shakespeare Othello

Source: Othello

“Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven;
Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads
And recks not his own read.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“Parting is such sweet sorrow”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.”

William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

“Glendower: I can call the spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come, when you do call for them?”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

Source: King Henry IV, Part 1

“I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table." Macbeth”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“I have a soul of lead
So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, That he hath turn'd a heaven unto a hell!”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

“Can I go forward when my heart is here?”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“We will meet; and there we may rehearse most
obscenely and courageously.

Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream. Spoken by Bottom, Act I Sc. 2”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

“He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“We came into the world like brother and brother,
And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.”

William Shakespeare The Comedy of Errors

Source: The Comedy of Errors

“Captain of our fairy band,
Helena is here at hand,
And the youth, mistook by me,
Pleading for a lover's fee.
Shall we their fond pageant see?
Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet