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Favourite quotes (21448)

“Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile,
And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart,
And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,
And frame my face for all occasions”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

Source: King Henry VI, Part 3

“Have more than you show,
Speak less than you know.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.”

William Shakespeare Henry VIII

Source: Henry VIII

“Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I'll always be in your heart… If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“Men of few words are the best men."

(3.2.41)”

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: Henry V

“For it falls out
That what we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost,
Why, then we rack the value, then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us
While it was ours.”

William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

“The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

Brutus, Act IV, scene iii.
Source: Julius Caesar (1599)

“Peace? I hate the word as I hate hell and all Montagues.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?”

William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 2

Source: Henry IV, Part 2

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions!”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”

William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice

Source: The Merchant of Venice

“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”

William Shakespeare book The Passionate Pilgrim

Source: The Passionate Pilgrim

“I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“To be or not to be, that is the question.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet, Act III, scene i.

“What's done cannot be undone.”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Variant: What's done, is done
Source: Macbeth

“Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.”

William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

“In time we hate that which we often fear.”

William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra

Source: Antony and Cleopatra

“Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet