William Shakespeare Quotes

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698 Quotes Revealing Timeless Wisdom on Love, Trust, and Human Nature

“I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.”

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through fog and filthy air.”

“All the world's a stage.”

“To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.”

“I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.”

“The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.”

“Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.”

“No legacy is so rich as honesty.”

“The prince of darkness is a gentleman!”

“Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.”

“If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd here
While these visions did appear.”

“Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake.”

“Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.
Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,
Yet Grace must still look so.”

“True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.”

“And to be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in
a merry hour.
BEATRICE
No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there
was a star danced, and under that was I born.”

“In thy foul throat thou liest.”

“Be bloody bold and resolute.”

“For to be wise and love exceeds man's might.”

“I have Immortal longings in me.”

“There is some soul of goodness in things evil,
Would men observingly distill it out.”

“O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name, or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and I'll no longer be a Capulet.”

“I have supped full with horrors.”

“Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful”

“The moon shines bright. In such a night as this. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and they did make no noise, in such a night…”

“The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.”

“Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!”

“Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.”

“The breaking of so great a thing should make
A greater crack: the round world
Should have shook lions into civil streets,
And citizens to their dens.”

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”

“Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.”

“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”

“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.”

“Men in rage strike those that wish them best.”

“Exit, pursued by a bear.”

“He that is thy friend indeed,
He will help thee in thy need:
If thou sorrow, he will weep;
If thou wake, he cannot sleep:
Thus of every grief in heart
He with thee doth bear a part.
These are certain signs to know
Faithful friend from flattering foe.”

“Oh, I am fortune's fool!”

“[Thine] face is not worth sunburning.”

“So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.”

“I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.”

“Beware the ides of March.”

“Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so
ordinary that the whippers are in love too.”

“And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.”

“[Thou] mad mustachio purple-hued maltworms!”

“Why, what's the matter,
That you have such a February face,
So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?”

“Like madness is the glory of this life.”

“As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods.
They kill us for their sport.”

“a young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief”

“Journeys end in lovers meeting.”

“Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won”