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Favourite quotes (21448)

“For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.”

William Shakespeare book Shakespeare's Sonnets

Source: Shakespeare's Sonnets

“O, full of scorpions is my mind!”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

Source: Julius Caesar

“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!”

William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice

Source: The Merchant of Venice

“Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.”

William Shakespeare As You Like It

Source: As You Like It

“The Devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“All causes shall give way: I am in blood
Stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o’er.”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting
That would not let me sleep.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“There's small choice in rotten apples.”

William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew

Source: The Taming of the Shrew

“Now I will believe that there are unicorns…”

William Shakespeare The Tempest

Source: The Tempest

“No, no, I am but shadow of myself:
You are deceived, my substance is not here;”

William Shakespeare Henry VI, Part 1

Source: Henry VI, Part 1

“Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.”

William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

“Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.”

William Shakespeare King Lear

Source: King Lear

“Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds.”

William Shakespeare book Shakespeare's Sonnets

Source: The Sonnets

“O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd! She was a vixen when she went to school; And though she be but little, she is fierce.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

“love is blind
and lovers cannot see
the pretty follies
that themselves commit”

William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice

Source: The Merchant of Venice

“All things are ready, if our mind be so.”

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: Henry V

“Romeo: I dreamt a dream tonight.
Mercutio: And so did I.
Romeo: Well, what was yours?
Mercutio: That dreamers often lie.
Romeo: In bed asleep while they do dream things true.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“The rest, is silence.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet