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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This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch,
The lion and the belly-pinchèd wolf
Keep their fur dry.

I knew him tyrannous, and tyrants' fears
Decrease not, but grow faster than the years.

And for the peace of you I hold such strife
As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found.

Let fair humanity abhor the deed
That spots and stains love's modest snow-white weed.

An I thought he had been valiant and so cunning in fence, I'ld have seen him damned ere I'ld have challenged him.

To thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Yet be sad, good brothers,
* * * * *
Sorrow so royally in you appears,
That I will deeply put the fashion on.

Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme.

For nothing this wide Universe I call,
Save thou, my Rose; in it thou art my all.

Sonnets (1609)

The tyrant custom, most grave senators,
Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war
My thrice-driven bed of down.

Othello (1603)

Fit for the mountains and the barb'rous caves,
Where manners ne'er were preach'd.

Such an exploit have I in hand, Ligarius,
Had you a healthful ear to hear of it.

Julius Cæsar (1599)

Methinks it were an easy leap,
To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon.

Two red fires in both their faces blazed;
She thought he blush'd, * * *
And, blushing with him, wistly on him gazed.

The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

And simple truth miscall'd simplicity,
And captive good attending captain ill.

The babbling echo mocks the hounds,
Replying shrilly to the well-tun'd horns,
As if a double hunt were heard at once.

For never yet one hour in his bed
Have I enjoyed the golden dew of sleep,
But have been waked by his timorous dreams.

Richard III (1591)

In such a night
Medea gather'd the enchanted herbs
That did renew old Æson.

All is but toys; renown and grace is dead;
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is left this vault to brag of.

Macbeth (1605)

He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.

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