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Favourite quotes (21448)

“And it is very much lamented,…
That you have no such mirrors as will turn
Your hidden worthiness into your eye
That you might see your shadow.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

Source: Julius Caesar

“It is not night when I do see your face,
Therefore I think I am not in the night;
Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company,
For you in my respect are all the world:
Then how can it be said I am alone,
When all the world is here to look on me?”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

“When we our betters see bearing our woes,
We scarcely think our miseries our foes.”

William Shakespeare King Lear

Source: King Lear

“Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives
must die,
Passing through nature to eternity.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“what cannot be saved when fate takes, patience her injury a mockery makes”

William Shakespeare Othello

Source: Othello

“Macbeth:
If we should fail?

Lady Macbeth:
We fail?
But screw your courage to the sticking place,
And we'll not fail.”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.”

William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

“Suffer love! A good ephitet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.”

William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

“We, ignorant of ourselves,
Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers
Deny us for our good; so find we profit
By losing of our prayers.”

William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra

Source: Antony and Cleopatra

“Tis in my memory lock'd,
And you yourself shall keep the key of it.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“Under the greenwood tree,
Who loves to lie with me
And tune his merry note,
Unto the sweet bird's throat;
Come hither, come hither, come hither.
Here shall he see
No enemy
But winter and rough weather.”

William Shakespeare As You Like It

Source: As You Like It

“O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention!”

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: Henry V

“All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.”

William Shakespeare book Shakespeare's Sonnets

Source: Shakespeare's Sonnets

“Rumour is a pipe
Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures
And of so easy and so plain a stop
That the blunt monster with uncounted heads,
The still-discordant wavering multitude,
Can play upon it.”

William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 2

Source: Henry IV, Part 2

“Eternity was in our lips and eyes.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.”

William Shakespeare As You Like It

Source: As You Like It

“Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“Love's not love
When it is mingled with regards that stand
Aloof from th' entire point.”

William Shakespeare King Lear

Source: King Lear

“Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.”

William Shakespeare Twelfth Night

Source: Twelfth Night

“POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord?
HAMLET: Words, words, words.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet