William Shakespeare Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

2,311 Famous Quotes by William Shakespeare
“For you know, nuncle, The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long That it's had it head bit off by it young.”
Sparrows Quotes
Source: King Lear (Fool at I, iv)
“Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can Her heart inform her tongue--the swan's down-feather That stands upon the swell at full of tide, And neither way inclines.”
Swans Quotes
Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Antony at III, ii)
“We bodged again, as I have been a swan With bootless labor swim against the tide And spend her strength with overmatching waves.”
Swans Quotes
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part III (Plantagenet, Duke of York at I, iv)
“I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death, And from the organ-pipe of fraity sings His soul and body to their lasting rest.”
Swans Quotes
Source: The Life and Death of King John (Prince Henry at V, vii)
“Let music sound while he doth make his choice; Then if he lose he makes a swanlike end, Fading in music.”
Swans Quotes
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Portia at III, ii)
“I will play the swan, And die in music.”
Swans Quotes
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Emilia at V, ii)
“Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue; For all the water in the ocean Can never turn the swan's black legs to white, Although she lave them hourly in the flood.”
Swans Quotes
Source: Titus Andronicus (Aaron at IV, ii)
“Who are the violets now That strew the green lap of the new-come spring?”
Violets Quotes
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Duchess of York at V, ii)
“It had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odor.”
Violets Quotes
Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Orsino, Duke of Illyria at I, i)
“Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honor bright; to have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mock'ry.”
Perseverance Quotes
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Ulysses at III, iii)
“But Hercules himself must yield to odds; And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hews down and fells the hardest-timbered oak.”
Perseverance Quotes
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part III (Messenger at II, i)
“I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course.”
Perseverance Quotes
Source: King Lear (Gloucester at III, vii)
“Good Margaret, run thee to the parlor. There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice Proposing with the Prince and Claudio. Whisper her ear and tell her, I and Ursley Walk in the orchard, and our whole discourse Is all of her. Say that thou overheard'st us; And bid her steal into the pleached bower, Where honeysuckles, ripened by the sun, Forbid the sun to enter--like favorites, Made proud by princes, that advance their pride Against that power that bred it. There will she hide her To listen our propose. This is thy office. Bear thee well in it and leave us alone.”
Honeysuckles Quotes
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Hero at III, i)
“No, Antony, take the lot: But, first or last, your fine Egyptian cookery Shall have the fame. I have heard that Julius Caesar Grew faw with feasting there.”
Eating Quotes
Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Pompey at II, vi)
“I almost die for food, and let me have it!”
Eating Quotes
Source: As You Like It (Orlando at II, vii)
“Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table.”
Eating Quotes
Source: As You Like It (Duke Senior at II, vii)
“Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.”
Eating Quotes
Source: The Comedy of Errors (Dromio of Syracuse at IV, iii)
“Master, if you do, expect spoon-meat, or bespeak a long spoon.”
Eating Quotes
Source: The Comedy of Errors (Dromio of Syracuse at IV, iii)
“Thou say'st his meat was sauced with thy upbradings; Unquiet meals make ill digestions; Thereof the raging fire of fever bred.”
Eating Quotes
Source: The Comedy of Errors (Lady Abbess at V, i)
“If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.”
Eating Quotes
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Cressida at I, ii)
“He hath eaten me out of house and home; he hath put all of my substance into that fat belly of his.”
Eating Quotes
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (Hostess at II, i)
“He that keeps not crust nor crum Weary of all, shall want some.”
Eating Quotes
Source: King Lear (Fool at I, iv)
“Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets, swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog, drinks the green mantle of the standing pool; who is whipped from tithing to tithing, and stock-punished and imprisoned; who hath had three suits to his back, six shirts to his body, Horse to ride, and weapon to wear, But mice and rats, and such small deer, Have been Tom's food for seven long year.”
Eating Quotes
Source: King Lear (Edgar at III, iv)
“Be it not in thy care. Go, I charge thee, invite them all; let in the tide Of knaves once more; my cook and I'll provide.”
Eating Quotes
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Timon at III, iv)
“Each man to his stool, with that spur as he would to the lip of his mistress. Your diet shall be in all places alike; make not a City feast of it, to let the meat cool ere we can agree upon the first place; sit, sit. The gods require our thanks.”
Eating Quotes
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Timon at III, vi)
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