William Shakespeare Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

2,311 Famous Quotes by William Shakespeare
“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Measure for Measure (Escalus at II, i)
“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from breaks of ice, and answer none, And some condemned for a fault alone.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Measure for Measure (Escalus at II, i)
“But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority,-- Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Measure for Measure (Isabella at II, ii)
“Condemn the fault, but not the actor of it.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Measure for Measure (Angelo at II, ii)
“That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Measure for Measure (Isabella at II, ii)
“The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope: I have hope to live, and am prepared to die.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Measure for Measure (Claudio at III, i)
“The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle that we tread upon In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Measure for Measure (Isabella at III, i)
“The sense of death is most in apprehension.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Measure for Measure (Isabella at III, i)
“Craft against vice I must apply.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Measure for Measure (Vincentio, the Duke at III, ii)
“No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Measure for Measure (Vincentio, the Duke at III, ii)
“O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side!”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Measure for Measure (Vincentio, the Duke at III, ii)
“What king so strong, Can tie the gall up in a slanderer's tongue?”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Measure for Measure (Vincentio, the Duke at III, ii)
“They say, best men are moulded out of faults.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Measure for Measure (Mariana at V, i)
“Let me play the fool; With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Gratiano at I, i)
“My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Antonio at I, i)
“In a bondsman's key, With bated breath and whispering humbleness.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Shylock at I, iii)
“Oh what a goodly outside falsehood hath!”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Antonio at I, iii)
“Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Shylock at I, iii)
“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Antonio at I, iii)
“The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Antonio at I, iii)
“Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect The thoughts of others.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Shylock at I, iii)
“He that hath the grace of God, hath wealth enough.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Launcelot at II, ii)
“In the end truth will out.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Launcelot at II, ii)
“What a beard hast thou got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin than Dobbin my thill-horse has on his tail.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Gobbo at II, ii)
“Fast bind, fast find-- A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Shylock at II, v)
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