William Shakespeare Quotes (3360 Quotes)
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- 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")
- Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he. We are two lions litter'd in one day, and I the elder and more terrible.
(William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar")
- When we are born, we cry that we have come to this stage of fools
(William Shakespeare, "King Lear")
- To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.
(William Shakespeare, "Much Ado About Nothing")
- He hath disgrac'd me and hind'red me half a million; laugh'd at my losses, mock'd at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated my enemies. And what's his reason? I am a Jew.
(William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice")
- Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st.
(William Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night")
- Oh, what fools these mortals be!
(William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream")
- Fill till the wine o'erswell the cup
(William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar")
- Who is it that can tell me who I am?
(William Shakespeare, "King Lear")
- Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.
(William Shakespeare, "Much Ado About Nothing")
- I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!
(William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice")
- For what says Quinapalus? Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
(William Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night")
- Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion
(William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream")
- I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much, He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men. He loves no plays As thou dost, Anthony; he heard no music; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mocked himself and scorned his spirit That could be moved to smile at anything. Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.
(William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar")
- For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?
(William Shakespeare, "Much Ado About Nothing")
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