William Shakespeare Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

2,311 Famous Quotes by William Shakespeare
“The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at II, vi)
“Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at II, vi)
“Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at III, iii)
“Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at III, v)
“The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade To paly ashes.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at IV, i)
“Confusion's cure lives not In these confusions.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at IV, v)
“My poverty, but not my will consents.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Apothecary at V, i)
“O churl! drink all; and leave no friendly drop!”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at V, iii)
“Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Sonnet XXXV
“No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en. In brief, sir, study what you most effect.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Tranio at I, i)
“Though little fire grows great with little wind, Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio at II, i)
“As the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, So honour peereth in the meanest habit.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio at IV, iii)
“For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich; And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, So honour peereth in the meanest habit.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio at IV, iii)
“So honour peereth in the meanest habit.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio at IV, iii)
“The more my wrong, the more his spite appears.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Katharina at IV, iii)
“Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground--long heath, brown furze, anything.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: The Tempest (Gonzalo at I, i)
“Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground--long heath, brown furze, anything. The wills above be done, but I would fain die a dry death.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: The Tempest (Gonzalo at I, i)
“But this swift business I must uneasy make, lest too light winning Make the prize light.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: The Tempest (Prospero at I, ii)
“I will be correspondent to command.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: The Tempest (Ariel at I, ii)
“Stained With grief, that's beauty's canter.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: The Tempest (Prospero at I, ii)
“The very rats Instinctively had quit it.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: The Tempest (Prospero at I, ii)
“You rub the sore When you should bring the plaster!”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: The Tempest (Gonzalo at II, i)
“Leave not a rack behind.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: The Tempest (Prospero at IV, i)
“Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Titus Andronicus (Tamora at I, i)
“Foul-spoken coward, that thunder'st with thy tongue, And with thy weapon nothing dar'st perform.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Titus Andronicus (Chiron at II, i)