William Shakespeare citations Page 21

“I have drunk and seen the spider.”

William Shakespeare The Tempest

Source: The Tempest

“What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no.”

William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale

Source: The Winter's Tale

“Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth”

Source: King Henry IV, Part 1

“Let life be short, else shame will be too long.”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“Love is not love
Which alters when alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
Oh, no, it is an ever-fixèd mark,
that looks on tempests and is never shaken.”

William Shakespeare Henri V

Source: Henry V

“Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood.”

Source: The Complete Sonnets and Poems

“You are not worth the dust which the rude wind blows in your face”

William Shakespeare King Lear

Source: King Lear

“In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility; but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favor'd rage.”

William Shakespeare King Lear

Source: King Lear

“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.”

William Shakespeare Henri V

Source: Henry V

“So quick bright things come to confusion.”

William Shakespeare All's Well That Ends Well

Source: All's Well That Ends Well

“How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that has such people in it!”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

“For who so firm that cannot be seduced?”

William Shakespeare The Tempest

Variante: O, brave new world
that has such people in't!
Source: The Tempest

“For what says Quinapalus? Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.”

“LEONATO
Neighbours, you are tedious.

DOGBERRY
It pleases your worship to say so, but we are the poor duke's officers; but truly, for mine own part, if I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in
my heart to bestow it all of your worship.”

William Shakespeare Twelfth Night

Variante: Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.
Source: Twelfth Night

“for Mercutio's soul
Is but a little way above our heads,
Staying for thine to keep him company:
Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him.”

William Shakespeare livre Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

“How is it that the clouds still hang on you?”

William Shakespeare livre Roméo et Juliette

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.”

Source: Hamlet

“Alas, poor country, almost afraid to know itself! It cannot be called our mother, but our grave.”

“If one good deed in all my life I did,
I do repent it from my very soul.”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“Come unto these yellow sands,
And then take hands.
Curtsied when you have and kissed
The wild waves whist,
Foot is featly here and there;
And, sweet sprites, the burden bear.

Ariel's song, scene II, Act I”

“It is far easier for me to teach twenty what were right to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.”

William Shakespeare The Tempest

Source: The Tempest

“If your mind dislike anything obey it”

William Shakespeare As You Like It

Source: As You Like It

“Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if.”

Source: Hamlet

“Some grief shows much of love,
But much of grief shows still some want of wit.”

William Shakespeare livre Roméo et Juliette

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“It puzzles the will.”

“That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.”

Source: Hamlet

“Let every man be master of his time.”

William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the
fool no where but in's own house.”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“Bloody thou art, bloody will be thy end;
Shame serves thy life and doth thy death attend.”

Source: Hamlet