William Shakespeare Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

2,311 Famous Quotes by William Shakespeare
“But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.”
Secrecy Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Ghost at I, v)
“Is your man secret? Did you ne'er hear say, Two may keep counsel, putting one away?”
Secrecy Quotes
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Nurse at II, iv)
“Take her, fair son, and from her blood raise up Issue to me, that the contending kingdoms Of France and England, whose very shores look pale With envy of each other's happiness, May cease their hatred, and this dear conjunction Plant neighborhood and Christian-like accord In their sweet bosoms, that never war advance His bleeding sword 'twixt England and fair France.”
Christianity Quotes
Source: The Life of King Henry the Fifth (Isabel, Queen of France at V, ii)
“O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect The thoughts of others!”
Christianity Quotes
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Shylock at I, iii)
“The Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind.”
Christianity Quotes
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Antonio at I, iii)
“O Lorenzo, If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife, Become a Christian and thy loving wife!”
Christianity Quotes
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Jessica at II, iii)
“I never heard a passion so confused, So strange, outrageous, and so variable As the dog Jew did utter in the streets: 'My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter! Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!'”
Christianity Quotes
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Solanio at II, viii)
“He tells me flatly there's no mercy for me in heaven because I am a Jew's daughter; and he says you are no good member of the commonwealth, for in converting Jews to Christians you raise the price of pork.”
Christianity Quotes
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Jessica at III, v)
“This making of Christians will raise the price of hogs; if we grow all to be pork-eaters, we shall not shortly have a rasher on the coals for money.”
Christianity Quotes
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Launcelot at III, v)
“It is spoke as a Christians ought to speak.”
Christianity Quotes
Source: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Evans at I, i)
“A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion-- To pray for them that have done scathe to us.”
Christianity Quotes
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Rivers at I, iii)
“Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has.”
Christianity Quotes
Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Andrew at I, iii)
“The benediction of these covering heavens Fall on their heads like dew, for they are worthy To inlay heaven with stars.”
Blessings Quotes
Source: Cymbeline (Belarius at V, v)
“Gard'ner, for telling me these news of woe, Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow.”
Growth Quotes
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Queen at III, iv)
“'Ay,' quoth my uncle Gloucester, 'Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.' And since, methinks, I would not grow so fast, Because sweet flow'rs are slow and weeds make haste.”
Growth Quotes
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (York at II, iv)
“O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth: The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.”
Growth Quotes
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (York at III, i)
“In that day's feats, When he might act the woman in the scene, He prov'd best man i' th' field, and for his meed Was brow-bound with the oak.”
Strength Quotes
Source: Coriolanus (Cominius at II, ii)
“O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.”
Strength Quotes
Source: Measure for Measure (Isabella at II, ii)
“Robust grass endures mighty winds; loyal ministers emerge through ordeal.”
Strength Quotes
Source: Measure for Measure (Isabella at II, ii)
“What then? What rests? Try what repentance can. What can it not? Yet what can it when one cannot repent? O wretched state? O bosom black as death! O limed soul, that struggling to be free Art more engaged!”
Repentance Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Claudius, King of Denmark at III, iii)
“Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking. I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent.”
Repentance Quotes
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Falstaff at III, iii)
“Under your good correction, I have seen When, after execution, judgment hath Repented o'er his doom.”
Repentance Quotes
Source: Measure for Measure (Provost at II, ii)
“That it may please you leave these sad designs To him that hath most cause to be a mourner, And presently repair to Crosby House; Where--after I have solemnly interred At Chertsey monast'ry with noble king-- And wet his grave with my repentant tears-- I will with all expedient duty see you.”
Repentance Quotes
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at I, ii)
“Bravest at the last, She levelled at our purposes, and being royal, Took her own way.”
Suicide Quotes
Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Octavius Caesar at V, ii)
“Against self-slaughter There is a prohibition so divine That cravens my weak hand.”
Suicide Quotes
Source: Cymbeline (Imogen at III, iv)
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