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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Even at this sight
My heart is turn'd to stone: and while 'tis mine,
It shall be stony.

What a slave art thou, to hack thy sword as thou hast done, and then say it was in fight!

Beyond the infinite and boundless reach
Of mercy, if thou didst this deed of death,
Art thou damn'd, Hubert.

King John (1598)

Out, sword, and wound
The pap of Pyramus;
Ay, that left pap,
Where heart doth hop.

Tremble, thou wretch,
That has within thee undivulged crimes,
Unwhipp'd of justice.

King Lear (1608)

Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep
In the affliction of these terrible dreams
That shake us nightly.

Macbeth (1605)

Never yet did base dishonour blur our name
But with our sword we wiped away the blot.

Set honour in one eye and death i' the other,
And I will look on both indifferently.

Julius Cæsar (1599)

I will speak daggers to her, but use none;
My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites.

By my life, this is my lady’s hand: these be her very C’s, her U’s, and her T’s, and thus makes she her great P’s.

Talkers are no good doers; be assur'd
We come to use our hands and not our tongues.

Richard III (1591)

Thou art a fellow of a good respect;
Thy life hath had some smatch of honour in it.

Julius Cæsar (1599)

To make society
The sweeter welcome, we will keep ourself
Till supper-time alone.

Macbeth (1605)

Make the Moor thank me, love me and reward me,
For making him egregiously an ass.

Othello (1603)

Before I be convict by course of law,
To threaten me with death is most unlawful.

Richard III (1591)

Then know, that I have little wealth to lose;
A man I am cross'd with adversity.

I am no proud Jack, like Falstaff; but a
Corinthian, glad of mettle, a good boy.

For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees
The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time
Steals ere we can effect them.

I do present you with a man of mine,
Cunning in music and the mathematics,
To instruct her fully in those sciences.

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

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