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 sword is out
That must destroy thee.

Mine eyes smell onions; I shall weep anon.

Give me another horse: bind up my wounds.

Richard III (1591)

And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.

The stars above us govern our conditions.

King Lear (1608)

I would make him eat a piece of my sword.

O, call back yesterday, bid time return.

Richard II (1595)

For you and I are past our dancing days.

Romeo and Juliet (1597)

No hinge nor loop,
To hang a doubt on.

Othello (1603)

Though I do hate him as I do hell-pains.

Othello (1603)

How use doth breed a habit in a man!

The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590)

O, he sits high in all the people's hearts;
And that which would appear offence in us,
His countenance, like richest alchemy,
Will change to virtue and to worthiness.

What! have I 'scaped love-letters in the holiday-time of my beauty, and am I now a subject for them?

An oath, an oath, I have an oath in heaven:
Shall I lay perjury upon my soul?
No, not for Venice.

There is a kind of character in thy life,
That to the observer doth thy history
Fully unfold.

Measure for Measure (1603)

'Tis well said again;
And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:
And yet words are no deeds.

Henry VIII (1613)

What a beard hast thou got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin than Dobbin my fill-horse has on his tail.

Would I were dead! if God's good will were so:
For what is in this world but grief and woe?

Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God!
My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee.

O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! and yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.

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