William Shakespeare Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

2,311 Famous Quotes by William Shakespeare
“Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra at II, v)
“Her very silence, and her patience, Speak to the people, and they pity her.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: As You Like It (Duke Frederick at I, iii)
“O how full of briars is this working-day world.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: As You Like It (Rosalind at I, iii)
“Turning these jests out of service, let us talk in good earnest.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: As You Like It (Celia at I, iii)
“Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court?”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: As You Like It (Duke Senior at II, i)
“Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens; 'Tis just the fashion. Wherefore do you look Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there?”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: As You Like It (First Lord at II, i)
“Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: As You Like It (Duke Senior at II, i)
“All the world's a stage.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: As You Like It (Jaques at II, vii)
“Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude: Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: As You Like It (Amiens at II, vii)
“Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: As You Like it (Touchstone at III, ii)
“Omittance is no quittance.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: As You Like It (Phebe at III, v)
“Ay, sir, and wherefore; for they say every why hath a wherefore.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: The Comedy of Errors (Dromio of Syracuse at II, ii)
“I'll potch at him some way; Or wrath or craft may get him.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Coriolanus (Aufidius at I, x)
“O, a kiss Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge! Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss I carried from thee dear; and my true lip Hath virgined it e'er since.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Coriolanus (Coriolanus at V, iii)
“Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man Still to remember wrongs?”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Coriolanus (Volumnia at V, iii)
“Breaking his oath and resolution, like A twist of rotten silk.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Coriolanus (Aufidius at V, vi)
“That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioles.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Coriolanus (Coriolanus at V, vi)
“Her pretty action did outsell her gift, And yet enriched it too. She gave it me and said She prized it once.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Cymbeline (Iachimo at II, iv)
“For there's no motion That tends to vice in man, but I affirm It is the woman's part.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Cymbeline (Posthumus at II, v)
“The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Cymbeline (Balarius at III, vi)
“Weariness Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth Finds the down pillow hard.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Cymbeline (Belarius at III, vi)
“Some falls the means are happier to rise.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Cymbeline (Caius Lucius at IV, ii)
“A little more than kin, and less than kind!”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at I, i)
“To persevere In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Claudius, King of Denmark at I, ii)
“We ne'er shall look upon his like again.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at I, ii)
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