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Favourite quotes (21448)

“All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.”

William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice

Source: The Merchant of Venice

“To die, to sleep -
To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub,
For in this sleep of death what dreams may come…”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Variant: Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.
Source: Romeo and Juliet

“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“thus with a kiss I die”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Lysander, Act I, scene i.
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)

“My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triump die, like fire and powder
Which, as they kiss, consume”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

“You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”

William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice

Source: The Merchant of Venice

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet, Act II, scene ii.

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Variant: Doubt thou the stars are fire
Doubt thou the sun doth move
Doubt truth to be a liar
But never doubt I love
Source: Hamlet

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

Cassius, Act I, scene ii.
Variant: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Source: Julius Caesar

“That deep torture may be called a hell,
When more is felt than one hath power to tell.”

William Shakespeare book The Rape of Lucrece

The Rape of Lucrece.

“Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all!
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall:
Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none:
And some condemned for a fault alone.”

William Shakespeare Measure for Measure

Source: Measure for Measure

“thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

Source: Julius Caesar

“He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet