SHAKESPEARE CITATIONS

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge





What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.



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Farewell, fair cruelty.



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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.



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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!



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How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.



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Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.



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Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.



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To be, or not to be, that is the question.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.



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There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.



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Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.



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Men's vows are women's traitors!



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If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.



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There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.



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Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.



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Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!



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O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.



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If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.



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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements



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O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!



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I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.



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The love of heaven makes one heavenly



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Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.



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Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.



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I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.



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Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.



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Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.



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All the world ‘s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts. (As You Like it)



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Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? (Romeo and Juliet)



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Now is the winter of our discontent. (Richard III)



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Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? (Macbeth)



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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears: I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. (Julius Caesar)



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Nothing will come of nothing. (King Lear)



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The course of true love never did run smooth. (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)



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There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. (Hamlet)



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A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! (Richard III)



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Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. (Sonnet 116)

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SHAKESPEARE WORDS

The course of true love never did run smooth.



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The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.



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The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.




Speak low, if you speak love.



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Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.



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This above all; to thine own self be true.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.



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Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. (Hamlet)



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The barge she sat in, like a burnish’d throne, burn’d on the water. (Antony and Cleopatra)



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Off with his head! (Richard III)



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Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. (Henry IV, Part 2)



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Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. (The Tempest)



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What light through yonder window breaks. (Romeo and Juliet)


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Now is the winter of our discontent.



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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.



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Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.



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Now is the winter of our discontent.



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It is a wise father that knows his own child.



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Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. (Julius Caesar)



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Full fathom five thy father lies, of his bones are coral made. Those are pearls that were his eyes. Nothing of him that doth fade, but doth suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange. (The Tempest)



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A man can die but once. (Henry IV, Part 2)



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To thine own self be true. (Hamlet)



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All that glisters is not gold. (The Merchant of Venice)



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If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?



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Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.



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No legacy is so rich as honesty.



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Hell is empty and all the devils are here.



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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

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SHAKESPEARE SAYINGS

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.



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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. (Twelfth Night)



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There is no darkness but ignorance.



Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.



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



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Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.



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It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.



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I must be cruel, only to be kind.



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Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day. (Macbeth)



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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)



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The fault, dear Brutus, lies not within the stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings. (Julius Caesar)



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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? (Sonnet 18)



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When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.



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Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.



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Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.



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Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.



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False face must hide what the false heart doth know.



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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.



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Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.



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Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.



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Beware the Ides of March. (Julius Caesar)



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If music be the food of love play on. (Twelfth Night)



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What’s in a name? A rose by any name would smell as sweet. (Romeo and Juliet)



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As merry as the day is long. (Much Ado about Nothing)



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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!



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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.



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There's many a man has more hair than wit.



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The valiant never taste of death but once.



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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.



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To be, or not to be: that is the question. (Hamlet)



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Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. (Henry IV, Part 2)



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Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. (The Tempest)



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What light through yonder window breaks. (Romeo and Juliet)

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SHAKESPEARE QUOTES

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.



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If music be the food of love, play on.



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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.




Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course



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There's place and means for every man alive.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.



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No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.



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I am one who loved not wisely but too well. (Othello)



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If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes’ palaces. (The Merchant of Venice)



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We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. (The Tempest)



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Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. (Macbeth)



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Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.



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It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood



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There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.



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Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.



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How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child! (King Lear)



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By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap to pluck bright honor from the pale-faced moon, or dive into the bottom of the deep, where fathom-line could never touch the ground, and pluck up drowned honour by the locks. (Henry IV Part 1)



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If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? (The Merchant of Venice)



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This is very midsummer madness. (Twelfth Night)



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Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. (Much Ado about Nothing)



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I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. (The Merry Wives of Windsor)



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This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle…This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England. (Richard II)



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It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.



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All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.



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As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.



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Love is too young to know what conscience is.



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But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

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SHAKESPEARE QUOTATIONS

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.



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To be, or not to be, that is the question.



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We have seen better days. (Timon of Athens)



This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.



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A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.



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Get thee to a nunnery. (Hamlet)



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And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!



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I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.



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Lord, what fools these mortals be! (A Midsummer Night’s dream)



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Whoever loved that loved not at first sight? (As You Like It)



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I am a man more sinned against than sinning. (King Lear)



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Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust. (Cymbeline)



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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare



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Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare



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How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.



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Boldness be my friend.



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To do a great right do a little wrong.



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Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.



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God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.



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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.



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He doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus; and we petty men walk under his huge legs, and peep about to find ourselves dishonourable graves. (Julius Caesar)



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But, for my own part, it was Greek to me. (Julius Caesar)



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Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love



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Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.



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Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.



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Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.



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What is past is prologue.



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The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

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SHAKESPEARE LOVE SAYINGS QUOTES

Cupid is a knavish lad, thus to make females mad



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I pray you, do not fall in love with me, For I am falser than vows made in wine



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Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love



Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties



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Love hath made thee a tame snake

Oh, how this spring of love resembleth, The uncertain glory of an April day, Which now shows all beauty of the Sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away



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I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster



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Mistress, you know yourself, down on your knees, And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love



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In thy youth wast as true a lover, As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow



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Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love



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Men’s vows are women’s traitors



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To be wise and love, Exceeds man’s might



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They are in the very wrath of love, and they will go together. Clubs cannot part them



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The sight of lovers feedeth those in love



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Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee, and when I love thee not, chaos is come again



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Lovers ever run before the clock



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I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip



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I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say ‘I love you'



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I’ll make my heaven in a lady’s lap



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You have witchcraft in your lips



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I humbly do beseech of your pardon, For too much loving you



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Kiss me, Kate, we shall be married o’Sunday



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I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me



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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.



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They do not love that do not show their love"



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O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day



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Love will not be spurred to what it loathes



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While we lie tumbling in the hay.



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When you do dance, I wish you
A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do
Nothing but that.



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I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true.



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O! she's warm.
If this be magic, let it be an art
Lawful as eating.



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Let us be Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon



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I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say 'I love you'



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I love you more than words can wield the matter, Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty



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A heart to love, and in that heart, courage, to make love known



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A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences.



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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see, The pretty follies that themselves commit



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Lovers ever run before the clock



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Speak low if you speak love



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Love goes by haps; Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps



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See where she comes apparelled like the spring.



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Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties



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My heart is ever at your service



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Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.

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SHAKESPEARE'S LOVE QUOTES

His unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love



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What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!



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Is this the generation of love? Hot blood, hot thoughts and hot deeds? Why, they are vipers. Is love a generation of vipers?




Love is begun by time, And time qualifies the spark and fire of it



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Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench; I love her ten times more than e'er I did:
O, how I long to have some chat with her!



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Kiss me, Kate, we shall be married o'Sunday

I would not wish any companion in the world but you



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Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, Did my heart fly at your service



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The sight of lovers feedeth those in love



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What is light, if Sylvia be not seen? What is joy if Sylvia be not by?



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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see, The pretty follies that themselves commit



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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better



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You have witchcraft in your lips



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Love for thy love , and hand for hand I give.



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She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is woman, and therefore to be won



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I'll make my heaven in a lady's lap



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Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof



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Love will not be spurred to what it loathes



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This bud of love by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet



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These words are razors to my wounded heart.



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I am giddy, expectation whirls me round.
The imaginary relish is so sweet
That it enchants my sense.



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Fie, fie upon her!
There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip,
Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out
At every joint and motive of her body.

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SHAKESPEARE QUOTES ABOUT LOVE

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind



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So long as I can breathe or I can see
so long lives your love which gives life to me



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A heart to love, and in that heart, Courage, to make’s love known





For where thou art, there is the world itself, And where thou art not, desolation



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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes, being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet



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Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof



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The course of true love never did run smooth



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Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, Did my heart fly at your service



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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?



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But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,
Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;
I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty
To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;



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And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.



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Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs

I love you more than words can wield the matter, Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty



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Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by



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Falstaff: And is not my hostess of the tavern a most sweet wench?
Prince: As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the castle.



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Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art,
A good mouth-filling oath.



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To be wise, and love,
Exceeds man's might.



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Beauty, wit,
High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service,
Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all
To envious and calumniating time.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.



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You cannot call it love, for at your age the heyday in the blood is tame



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She will die if you love her not, And she will die ere she might make her love known




What 's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.



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When you depart from me sorrow abides, and happiness takes his leave.



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SHAKESPEARE WORDS ABOUT LOVE

Speak low if you speak love

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I would not wish any companion in the world but you

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She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them

O heaven! were man, But constant, he were perfect.

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When daffodils begin to peer, 

With heigh! the doxy over the dale, 

Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year; 

For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale.

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Was ever woman in this humour wooed? 

Was ever woman in this humour won?

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Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front; 

And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds 

To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, 

He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber 

To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.

If music be the food of love, play on

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There’s beggary in love that can be reckoned

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That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, 

If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

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Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by

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Is she not passing fair?

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This bud of love by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet

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Come what sorrow can, it cannot countervail the exchange of joy that one short minute gives me in her sight

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Love goes by haps; Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps

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The stroke of death is as a lovers pinch, Which hurts and is desired

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She’s beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is woman, and therefore to be won

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Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not, 

I care not for thee, Kate: this is no world 

To play with mammets and to tilt with lips: 

We must have bloody noses and cracked crowns.

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Thy tongue 

Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd, 

Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower, 

With ravishing division, to her lute.

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If music be the food of love, play on.

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Journey's end in lovers meeting.

Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy, That one short minute gives me in her sight

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Doubt that the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move his aides, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love

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