2,353 quotes
Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
Macbeth (1606)
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Hamlet (1600)
All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
Macbeth (1606)
Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!
Henry VI, Part 1 (1592)
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
Henry VI, Part 2 (1592)
The fox barks not, when he would steal the lamb.
Henry VI, Part 2 (1592)
Down, down to hell; and say I sent thee thither.
Henry VI, Part 3 (1592)
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
The Tempest (1611)
The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.
Henry VI, Part 3 (1592)
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
Much Ado About Nothing (1598)
The course of true love never did run smooth.
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
The Merchant of Venice (1596)
And though she be but little, she is fierce.
Cry 'Havoc!,' and let slip the dogs of war.
Julius Caesar (1599)
Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.
Henry VI, Part 1 (1592)
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Sonnets (1609)
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Hamlet (1600)
Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.
Men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child!
King Lear (1605)