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Favourite quotes (21448)

“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”

William Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor

Source: The Merry Wives of Windsor

“Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“Love moderately. Long love doth so.
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

*Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“The prince of darkness is a gentleman!”

William Shakespeare King Lear

Source: King Lear

“Journeys end in lovers meeting.”

William Shakespeare Twelfth Night

Variant: Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know.
Source: Twelfth Night

“No legacy is so rich as honesty.”

William Shakespeare All's Well That Ends Well

Source: All's Well That Ends Well

“Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.”

William Shakespeare Henry VIII

Source: Henry VIII

“The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.”

William Shakespeare Othello

Source: Othello

“a young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief”

William Shakespeare Twelfth Night

Source: Twelfth Night

“As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods.
They kill us for their sport.”

William Shakespeare King Lear

Source: King Lear

“Like madness is the glory of this life.”

William Shakespeare Timon of Athens

Source: Timon of Athens

“I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“Why, what's the matter,
That you have such a February face,
So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?”

William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

“[Thou] mad mustachio purple-hued maltworms!”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

Source: Henry IV: Part 1

“And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.”

William Shakespeare Richard III

Source: Richard III

“To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so
ordinary that the whippers are in love too.”

William Shakespeare As You Like It

Source: As You Like It

“All the world's a stage.”

William Shakespeare As You Like It

Source: As You Like It

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through fog and filthy air.”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Variant: Fair is foul, and foul is fair.
Source: Macbeth

“I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.”

William Shakespeare As You Like It

Source: As You Like It