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Favourite quotes (21448)

“I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself king of infinite space.”

Variant: O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.
Source: Hamlet

“Is it not strange that sheep's guts could hail souls out of men's bodies?”

William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

“If we shadows have offended,
Know but this and all is mended.
That you have but slumbered here,
While these visions did appear,
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding, but a dream.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

“Educated men are so impressive!”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano, A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.”

William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice

Source: The Merchant of Venice

“One half of me is yours, the other half is yours,
Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,
And so all yours.”

William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice

Source: The Merchant of Venice

“How does he love me? With adoration, with fertile tears,
With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire.”

William Shakespeare Twelfth Night

Source: Twelfth Night

“If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not…”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“More of your conversation would infect my brain.”

William Shakespeare Coriolanus

Source: Coriolanus

“Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

Source: Julius Caesar

“It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.”

William Shakespeare Othello

Source: Othello

“I am a man,
More sinn'd against than sinning.”

William Shakespeare King Lear

Lear, Act III, scene ii.
Source: King Lear (1605–6)

“Discretion is the better part of valor.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we burdened with light weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves complain.”

William Shakespeare The Comedy of Errors

Source: The Comedy of Errors

“Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

“Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.”

William Shakespeare As You Like It

Source: As You Like It

“Take it in what sense thou wilt.”