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Favourite quotes (21448)

“You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.”

William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

“Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.”

William Shakespeare Othello

Source: Othello

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 2

King Henry, Act III, scene i.
Source: Henry IV, Part 2 (1597–8)

“But I am constant as the Northern Star,
Of whose true fixed and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

Source: Julius Caesar

“There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“One pain is lessened by another’s anguish…. Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“I hold my peace, sir? no;
No, I will speak as liberal as the north;
Let heaven and men and devils, let them all,
All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.”

William Shakespeare Othello

Source: Othello

“Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

Source: A Midsummer Nights Dream

“This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.”

William Shakespeare King Lear

Source: King Lear

“Alas, that love, so gentle in his view,
Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!

*It’s sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it’s actually very rough when you experience it.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“Your face, my thane, is as a book where men
May read strange matters. To beguile the time,
Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,
Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under't.”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“Life… is a paradise to what we fear of death.”

William Shakespeare Measure for Measure

Source: Measure for Measure

“Tell me where is fancy bred,
Or in the heart, or in the head?”

William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice

Source: The Merchant of Venice

“Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

Source: Julius Caesar

“Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?
Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“Some rise by sin, and some by virtues fall.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“I would not wish any companion in the world but you.”

William Shakespeare The Tempest

Source: The Tempest

“Blood will have blood.”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Juliet, Act II, scene ii.
Source: Romeo and Juliet (1595)