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Favourite quotes (21448)

“Clown: Good Madonna, why mournest thou?
Olivia: Good Fool, for my brother's death.
Clown:I think his soul is in hell, Madonna.
Olivia:I know his soul is in heaven, Fool.
Clown: The more fool, Madonna, to mourn for your brother's soul being in heaven.”

William Shakespeare Twelfth Night

Source: Twelfth Night

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“I'll have no husband, if you be not he.”

William Shakespeare As You Like It

Source: As You Like It

“A plague on both your houses.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“I go and it is done. The bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell.”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“… and then, in dreaming, / The clouds methought would open and show riches / Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked / I cried to dream again.”

William Shakespeare The Tempest

Source: The Tempest

“Nothing in his life became him like leaving it.”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.”

William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice

Source: The Merchant of Venice

“Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“Watch out he's winding the watch of his wit, by and by it will strike.”

William Shakespeare The Tempest

Source: The Tempest

“I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot;
Follow your spirit: and upon this charge,
Cry — God for Harry! England and Saint George!”

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: Henry V

“But, indeed, words are very rascals, since bonds [vows] disgraced them."
Viola: "Thy reason, man?"
Feste: "Troth [Truthfully], sir, I can yield you none without words, and words are grown so false, I am loathe to prove reason with them.”

William Shakespeare Twelfth Night

Source: Twelfth Night

“Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe”

William Shakespeare Richard III

Source: Richard III

“For to be wise and love exceeds man's might.”

William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida

Source: Troilus and Cressida

“As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom:
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved”

William Shakespeare book Shakespeare's Sonnets

Source: Shakespeare's Sonnets

“You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate
As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize
As the dead carcasses of unburied men
That do corrupt my air, I banish you;
And here remain with your uncertainty!”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

Source: Tragedy of Coriolanus

“Sometimes when we are labeled, when we are branded our brand becomes our calling.”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

“If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

Source: King Henry IV, Part 1