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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Take physic, pomp;
Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel.

King Lear (1608)

Jack, how agrees the devil and thee about thy soul, that thou soldest him on Good Friday last for a cup of Madeira and a cold capon’s leg?

And night is fled,
Whose pitchy mantle overveil'd the earth.

She hath tied
Sharp-tooth'd unkindness, like a vulture here.

King Lear (1608)

Fortune, that arrant whore,
Ne'er turns the key to the poor.

King Lear (1608)

It shall be so:
Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go.

Whereto serves mercy,
But to confront the visage of offence?

One doth not know
How much an ill word may empoison liking.

What fool is not so wise
To lose an oath to win a paradise?

One woe doth tread upon another's heel
So fast they follow.

I dote on his very absence, and I wish them a fair departure.

A tear for pity and a hand
Open as day for melting charity.

Equality of two domestic powers
Breeds scrupulous faction.

I am not so nice,
To change true rules for old inventions.

It fits thee not to ask the reason why,
Because we bid it.

Epicurean cooks
Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite.

* * * more abhorr'd
Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.

Troilus and Cressida (1602)

Abandon all remorse;
On horror's head horrors accumulate.

Othello (1603)

From women's eyes this doctrine I derive:
They are the ground, the books, the academes,
From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire.

For it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell.

Macbeth (1605)

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