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Favourite quotes (21448)

“O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!”

William Shakespeare King Lear

Source: King Lear

“How low am I, thou painted maypole?
(Hermia to Helena)”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

“He kills her in her own humor.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

Source: Julius Caesar

“What win I if I gain the thing I seek?
A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy.
Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week?
Or sells eternity to get a toy?”

William Shakespeare book The Rape of Lucrece

Source: The Rape of Lucrece

“I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that will put me in trust: to love him that is honest; to converse with him that is wise, and says little; to fear judgment; to fight when I cannot choose; and to eat no fish.”

William Shakespeare King Lear

Source: King Lear

“Nothing can come of nothing.”

William Shakespeare King Lear

Lear, Act I, scene i.
Variant: Nothing will come of nothing: speak again.
Source: King Lear (1605–6)

“He is the half part of a blessed man,
Left to be finished by such as she;
And she a fair divided excellence,
Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.”

William Shakespeare King John

Source: King John

“Still it cried ‘Sleep no more!’ to all the house: ‘Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more,—Macbeth shall sleep no more!”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel:
Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him!
This was the most unkindest cut of all”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear
His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear:
And you all know, security
Is mortals' chiefest enemy.”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank
Here we will sit, and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears; soft stillness, and the night
Become the touches of sweet harmony”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“She gave me for my pains a world of sighs.”

William Shakespeare Othello

Source: Othello

“Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I wasted time and now doth time waste me.”

William Shakespeare Richard II

Source: Richard II

“Truly thou art damned, like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side.”

William Shakespeare As You Like It

Source: As You Like It

“They say best men are molded out of faults,
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy:
This wide and universal theatre
Presents more woeful pageants than the scene
Wherein we play in.”

William Shakespeare As You Like It

Source: As You Like It

“Screw your courage to the sticking-place”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth