William Shakespeare Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

2,311 Famous Quotes by William Shakespeare
“If half thy outward graces had been placed About the thoughts and counsels of thy heart.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Claudio at IV, i)
“It so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it; but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Friar Francis at IV, i)
“I follow him, to serve my turn upon him.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at I, i)
“Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at I, i)
“Preferment goes by letter and affection.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at I, i)
“'Tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve, For daws to peck at.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at I, i)
“She has deceived her father, and may thee.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Brabantio at I, iii)
“She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her for having pitied them.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at I, iii)
“But men are men; the best sometimes forget.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at II, iii)
“Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used. Exclaim no more against it.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at II, iii)
“Dull not device by coldness and delay.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at II, iii)
“Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the ingredient is a devil.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Cassio at II, iii)
“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at II, iii)
“O I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part, sir, of myself, and what remains is bestial.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Cassio at II, iii)
“Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at II, iii)
“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit and lost without deserving.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at II, iii)
“When devils will the blackest sins put on, They do suggest at first with heavenly shows!”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at II, iii)
“Give me the ocular proof.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at III, iii)
“He that filches from me my good name Robs me of that, which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at III, iii)
“He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know it, and he's not robb'd at all.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at III, iii)
“Honesty's a fool And loses that it works for.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at III, iii)
“I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at III, iii)
“Poor and content is rich, and rich enough; But riches fineless is as poor as winter To him that ever fears he shall be poor.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at III, iii)
“The shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at III, iii)
“There are a kind of men so loose of soul, That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at III, iii)