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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A gallant curtal-axe upon my thigh.

As You Like It (1603)

Many carriages he hath dispatched.

King John (1598)

Arm'd at point exactly, cap-à-pie.

They have a plentiful lack of wit.

Season your admiration for awhile.

I do perceive here a divided duty.

Othello (1603)

Who would be so mock'd with glory?

Out, sword, and to a sore purpose!

I must be cruel, only to be kind.

Let me hear from thee by letters.

They are our outward consciences.

Henry V (1599)

For I am sick and capable of fears,
Oppress'd with wrongs, and therefore full of fears,
A widow, husbandless, subject to fears,
A woman, naturally born to fears.

King John (1598)

He ploughed her, and she cropped.

The wide vessel of the universe.

Henry V (1599)

And in his brain,
Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit
After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd
With observation, the which he vents
In mangled forms.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Scarce blood enough in all their sickly veins
To give each naked curtle-axe a stain,
That our French gallants shall today draw out,
And sheathe for lack of sport.

Trail’st thou the puissant pike?

Henry V (1599)

I am the very pink of courtesy.

Romeo and Juliet (1597)

Jove, thou regent of the skies.

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