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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To glean the broken ears after the man
That the main harvest reaps.

When every room
Hath blaz'd with lights and brayed with minstrelsy.

Things done well,
And with a care, exempt themselves from fear;
Things done without example, in their issue
Are to be fear'd.

Henry VIII (1613)

There is not such a word
Spoke of in Scotland as this term of fear.

Take note, take note, O world,
To be direct and honest is not safe.

Othello (1603)

'Tis time to give 'em physic, their diseases
Are grown so catching.

Henry VIII (1613)

Pity is the virtue of the law,
And none but tyrants use it cruelly.

Within this wall of flesh
There is a soul counts thee her creditor.

King John (1598)

The flighty purpose never is o'ertook,
Unless the deed go with it.

Macbeth (1605)

O, what may man within him hide,
Though angel on the outward side!

Measure for Measure (1603)

Boundless intemperance
In nature is a tyranny, it hath been
Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne,
And fall of many kings.

Macbeth (1605)

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues
We write in water.

Henry VIII (1613)

There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture.

God, the best maker of all marriages,
Combine your hearts in one.

Henry V (1599)

The ripest fruit first falls, and so doth he;
His time is spent.

Richard II (1595)

This sickness doth infect
The very life-blood of our enterprise.

Unpack my heart with words
And fall a-cursing, like a very drab.

Set your heart at rest:
The fairyland buys not the child of me.

O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,
That monthly changes in her circled orb,
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.

Romeo and Juliet (1597)

Tongues I'll hang on every tree,
That shall civil sayings show.

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