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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I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything and their intent everywhere; for that's it that always makes a good voyage of nothing.

He is deformed, crooked, old, and sere,
Ill-faced, worse-bodied, shapeless everywhere;
Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind,
Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.

Doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth, that he cannot endure in his age.

There are a kind of men so loose of soul,
That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs.

Vengeance of Jenny's case, fie on her! Never name her, child, if she be a whore.

Merry Wives of Windsor (1597)

’T is my vocation, Hal; ’t is no sin for a man to labour in his vocation.

The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me.

Richard III (1591)

Master, master! news, old news, and such news as you never heard of!

Would it not grieve a woman to be overmaster'd with a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a cloud of wayward marl?

Draw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy swashing blow.

Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man?

O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.

Romeo and Juliet (1597)

Thou whoreson Zed! thou unnecessary letter!

King Lear (1608)

Preposterous ass, that never read so far
To know the cause why music was ordain'd!
Was it not to refresh the mind of man,
After his studies or his usual pain?

Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.

O villainous! I have looked upon the world for four times seven years; and since I could distinguish betwixt a benefit and an injury, I never found man that knew how to love himself.

Othello (1603)

She hath prosperous art
When she will play with reason and discourse,
And well she can persuade.

Measure for Measure (1603)

All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown;
Whate'er the course, the end is the renown.

I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath;
Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.

To lapse in fulness
Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood
Is worse in kings than beggars.

Cymbeline (1611)

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