William Shakespeare Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

2,311 Famous Quotes by William Shakespeare
“And wilt thou still be hammering treachery To tumble down thy husband and thyself From top of honor to disgrace's feet?”
Disgrace Quotes
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part II (Gloucester at I, ii)
“And then it started, like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons.”
Guilt Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Horatio at I, i)
“But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised, And mine that I was proud on--mine so much That I myself was to myself not mine, Valuing of her--why she, O, she is fall'n Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea Hath drops too few to wash her clean again, And salt too little which may season give To her foul tainted flesh!”
Guilt Quotes
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Leonato at IV, i)
“There is gold for you. Sell me your good report.”
Bribery Quotes
Source: Cymbeline (Cloten at II, iii)
“'Tis gold Which buys admittance--oft it doth--yea, and makes Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up This deer to th' stand o' th' stealer: and 'tis gold Which makes the true man kill'd and saves the thief, Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man.”
Bribery Quotes
Source: Cymbeline (Cloten at II, iii)
“What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers--shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honors For so much trash as may be grasped thus?”
Bribery Quotes
Source: Julius Caesar (Brutus at IV, iii)
“There is thy gold--worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none Farewell. Buy food and get thyself in flesh.”
Bribery Quotes
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at V, i)
“I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.”
Faults Quotes
Source: As You Like It (Orlando at III, ii)
“They were all like one another as halfpence are, every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it.”
Faults Quotes
Source: As You Like It (Rosalind at III, ii)
“Chide him for faults, and do it reverently, When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth, But, being moody, give him time and scope, Till that his passions, like a whale on ground, Confound themselves with working.”
Faults Quotes
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (Clarence at IV, iv)
“There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.”
Knavery Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at I, v)
“A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-faking, whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch; one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deny'st the least syllable of thy addition.”
Knavery Quotes
Source: King Lear (Kent at II, ii)
“Whip me such honest knaves!”
Knavery Quotes
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at I, i)
“Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.”
Prison Quotes
Source: Julius Caesar (Cassius at I, iii)
“I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.”
Prison Quotes
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (King Richard at V, v)
“But something may be done that we will not; And sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency.”
Temptation Quotes
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Troilus at IV, iv)
“Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back When gold and silver becks me to come on.”
Temptation Quotes
Source: The Life and Death of King John (Bastard at III, iii)
“How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes deeds ill done!”
Temptation Quotes
Source: The Life and Death of King John (King John at IV, ii)
“Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.”
Temptation Quotes
Source: Love's Labor's Lost (Berowne at IV, iii)
“For I am that way going to temptation, Where prayers cross.”
Temptation Quotes
Source: Measure for Measure (Angelo at II, ii)
“O cunning enemy that, to catch a saint, With saints dost bait thy hook: most dangerous Is that temptation that doth goad us on To sin in loving virtue.”
Temptation Quotes
Source: Measure for Measure (Angelo at II, ii)
“It is a creature That dotes on Cassio, as 'tis the strumpet's plague To beguile many and be beguiled by one.”
Temptation Quotes
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at IV, i)
“Tempt not a desperate man.”
Temptation Quotes
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at V, iii)
“Know'st thou not any whom corrupting gold Will tempt unto a close exploit of death?”
Temptation Quotes
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at IV, ii)
“I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.”
Temptation Quotes
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at IV, ii)
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