William Shakespeare Quotes

1564–1616 England

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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Also known as: Shakespeare, Shakespeare, William, Shakespearean, Shakspeare

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Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.

Henry V (1599)

Away, and mock the time with fairest show;
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

Macbeth (1605)

We are not ourselves
When nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind
To suffer with the body.

King Lear (1608)

To that dauntless temper of his mind,
He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour
To act in safety.

Macbeth (1605)

'Tis a blushing shamefast spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom; it fills one full of obstacles.

Richard III (1591)

I hold it cowardice
To rest mistrustful where a noble heart
Hath pawn'd an open hand in sign of love.

But a merrier man,
Within the limit of becoming mirth,
I never spent an hour's talk withal.

He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.

Gardener, for telling me these news of woe,
Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow.

Richard II (1595)

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

But words are words; I never yet did hear
That the bruis'd heart was pierced through the ear.

Othello (1603)

Peas and beans are as dank here as a dog, and that is the next way to give poor jades the bots.

Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful, were to make a monster of the multitude.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear;
When little fears grow great, great love grows there.

Villain, thou know'st no law of God nor man
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.

Richard III (1591)

The martlet Builds in the weather on the outward wall, Even in the force and road of casualty.

And frame your mind to mirth and merriment,
Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.

Rudeness is a sauce to his good wit,
Which gives men stomach to digest his words,
With better appetite.

Julius Cæsar (1599)

I see how thine eye would emulate the diamond: thou hast the right archèd beauty of the brow.

The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Shakespeare (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.