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Favourite quotes (21448)

“Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“Make me a willow cabin at your gate,
And call upon my soul within the house;
Write loyal cantons of contemned love
And sing them loud even in the dead of night.”

William Shakespeare Twelfth Night

Source: Twelfth Night

“My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“Why should we rise because 'tis light?
Did we lie down because t'was night?”

William Shakespeare book Shakespeare's Sonnets

Source: Shakespeare's Sonnets

“Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles.”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Macbeth

“Conscience is but a word that cowards use,
Devis'd at first to keep the strong in awe:
Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law.
March on, join bravely, let us to't pell-mell;
If not to heaven, then hand in hand to hell.”

William Shakespeare Richard III

Source: Richard III

“The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.”

William Shakespeare Timon of Athens

Source: Timon of Athens

“A thousand times good night. A thousand times the worse, to want thy light. Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, but love from love, toward school with heavy looks.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“The art of our necessities is strange
That can make vile things precious.”

William Shakespeare King Lear

Source: King Lear

“Something wicked this way comes”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Variant: By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
Source: Macbeth

“Happy are those who hear their detractions and can put them to mending.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“More matter with less art.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“The worst was this: my love was my decay.”

William Shakespeare book Shakespeare's Sonnets

Source: Shakespeare's Sonnets

“Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. Lady, as you are mine, I am yours: I give away myself for
you and dote upon the exchange.”

William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

“If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide,
By self-example mayst thou be denied.”

William Shakespeare book Shakespeare's Sonnets

Source: Shakespeare's Sonnets

“Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus.”

William Shakespeare Othello

Variant: Tis within ourselves that we are thus or thus
Source: Othello

“I dreamt my lady came and found me dead
…………
And breathed such life with kisses in my lips
That I revived and was an emperor.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

Source: Julius Caesar

“O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)”

William Shakespeare Othello

Source: Othello