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Favourite quotes (21448)

“Ay me! for aught that ever I could read,
could ever hear by tale or history,
the course of true love never did run smooth.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

“Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine ownself be true.
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Polonius, Act I, scene iii.
Source: Hamlet (1600–1)

“You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse”

William Shakespeare The Tempest

Source: The Tempest

“In jest, there is truth.”

William Shakespeare King Lear

Source: King Lear

“Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,
And vice sometime by action dignified.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die.”

William Shakespeare Richard III

Source: Richard III

“Let me have men about me that are fat… Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

Source: Julius Caesar

“JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name?

ORLANDO: Yes, just.

JAQUES: I do not like her name.

ORLANDO: There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened.”

William Shakespeare As You Like It

Source: As You Like It

“What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“A little more than kin, a little less than kind.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“Where is Polonius?
HAMLET
In heaven. Send hither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i' th' other place yourself. But if indeed you find him not within this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“It is not, nor it cannot, come to good,
But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Variant: But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.
Source: Hamlet

“Good wombs have borne bad sons."
-- (Miranda, I:2)”

William Shakespeare The Tempest

Source: The Tempest

“You may my glories and my state depose,
But not my griefs; still am I king of those.”

William Shakespeare Richard II

Source: Richard II

“What a fool honesty is.”

William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale

Source: The Winter's Tale

“Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books,
But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“O, let me kiss that hand!

KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.”

William Shakespeare King Lear

Source: King Lear

“He that is strucken blind can not forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires: The eyes wink at the hand; yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love!”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream