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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The fringed curtains of thine eye advance,
And say what thou seest yond.

Thy knotted and combined locks to part,
And each particular hair to stand an-end,
Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.

Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come
In yours and my discharge.

Let's teach ourselves that honourable stop,
Not to outsport discretion.

Othello (1603)

What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet,
But poison'd flattery?

Henry V (1599)

Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo,
The numbers of the fear'd.

I am a soldier and unapt to weep
Or to exclaim on fortune's fickleness.

Every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it.

This is the very coinage of your brain:
This bodiless creation ecstasy.

Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace,
To silence envious tongues.

Henry VIII (1613)

If sorrow can admit society,
Tell o'er your woes again by viewing mine.

Richard III (1591)

Confess yourself to heaven;
Repent what's past; avoid what is to come.

Pacing through the forest,
Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.

I am on fire
To hear this rich reprisal is so nigh
And yet not ours.

Now the hungry lion roars,
And the wolf behowls the moon;
Whilst the heavy ploughman snores,
All with weary task foredone.

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)

You play the spaniel,
And think with wagging of your tongue to win me.

Henry VIII (1613)

Affliction is enamour'd of thy parts,
And thou art wedded to calamity.

Romeo and Juliet (1597)

Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago,
If thou but think'st him wrong'd and mak'st his ear
A stranger to thy thoughts.

Othello (1603)

Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye
Than twenty of their swords.

Romeo and Juliet (1597)

What private griefs they have, alas, I know not,
That made them do it.

Julius Cæsar (1599)

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