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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Speak with me, pity me, open the door:
A beggar begs that never begg'd before.

Richard II (1595)

Give me a staff of honor for mine age,
But not a sceptre to control the world.

So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

Ask God for temperance; that's the appliance only
Which your disease requires.

Henry VIII (1613)

I have seen the day, with my good biting falchion
I would have made them skip.

I'll forbear;
And am fallen out with my more headier will,
To take the indispos'd and sickly fit
For the sound man.

King Lear (1608)

Truly the souls of men are full of dread:
Ye cannot reason almost with a man
That looks not heavily and full of fear.

Richard III (1591)

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at; I am not what I am.

Othello (1603)

Thus can the demi-god Authority
Make us pay down for our offense by weight.

Measure for Measure (1603)

I have seen better faces in my time
Than stands on any shoulder that I see.

King Lear (1608)

Hippolyta, I woo’d thee with my sword
And won thy love doing thee injuries.

I grant him bloody,
Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful,
Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin
That has a name.

Macbeth (1605)

I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad of other men's good, content with my harm.

Men that make
Envy and crooked malice nourishment,
Dare bite the best.

Henry VIII (1613)

The love of wicked men converts to fear;
That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both
To worthy danger and deserved death.

Richard II (1595)

Discomfort guides my tongue
And bids me speak of nothing but despair.

Richard II (1595)

Truth needs no colour, with his colour fix'd;
Beauty no pencil, beauty's truth to lay;
But best is best, if never intermix'd.

Every tongue that speaks
But Romeo's name speaks heavenly eloquence.

Romeo and Juliet (1597)

Though yet of Hamlet, our dear brother's death,
The memory be green.

All his mind is bent to holiness,
To number Ave-Maries on his beads.

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