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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Speak, what trade art thou?
Why, sir, a carpenter.
Where is thy leather apron and thy rule?
What dost thou with thy best apparel on?

Julius Cæsar (1599)

Thou torturest me, Tubal: it was my turquoise; I had it of Leah when I was a bachelor: I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys.

Thou almost makest me waver in my faith
To hold opinion with Pythagoras,
That souls of animals infuse themselves
Into the trunks of men.

Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking; I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent.

He took my father grossly, full of bread;
With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May;
And how his audit stands who knows save heaven?

No more like my father
Than I to Hercules.

Those happy smilets,
That play'd on her ripe lip, seem'd not to know
What guests were in her eyes; which parted thence,
As pearls from diamonds dropp'd.

King Lear (1608)

I cannot tell what you and other men
Think of this life; but, for my single self,
I had as lief not be as live to be
In awe of such a thing as I myself.

Julius Cæsar (1599)

See what a rent the envious Casca made.

Julius Cæsar (1599)

The elder of them, being put to nurse,
Was by a beggar-woman stolen away;
And, ignorant of his birth and parentage,
Became a bricklayer when he came to age.

Mad world. Mad kings. Mad composition.

King John (1598)

I was not born under a rhyming planet.

Thus hath the candle singed the moth.

You mend the jewel by the wearing it.

My library was dukedom large enough.

The Tempest (1611)

When mine hours were nice and lucky.

A maiden hath no tongue but thought.

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!

Never came reformation in a flood.

Henry V (1599)

It yearns me not, if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires:
But, if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.

Henry V (1599)

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