Prince of Morocco, reading Portia's note, Act II, scene vii; this is the source of the popular paraphrase "All that glitters is not gold."
Source: The Merchant of Venice (1596–7)

“It’s easy for someone to joke about scars if they’ve never been cut.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“I do desire we may be better strangers.”

William Shakespeare

“Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.”

William Shakespeare

“true apothecary thy drugs art quick”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they should
sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs.”

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: Henry V

“It is excellent / To have a giant's strenght / But it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant

(Isabella)”

William Shakespeare Measure for Measure

Source: Measure for Measure

“The world must be peopled!”

William Shakespeare

“Yet but three come one more.
Two of both kinds make up four.
Ere she comes curst and sad.
Cupid is a knavish lad.
Thus to make poor females mad.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

“There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.”

William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

“The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope.”

William Shakespeare

“I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?”

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: Henry V

“No matter where; of comfort no man speak:
Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;
Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes
Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth”

William Shakespeare Richard II

Variant: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;
Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes
Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth,
Let's choose executors and talk of wills
Source: Richard II

“A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“When you depart from me sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave.”

William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing