William Shakespeare Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

2,311 Famous Quotes by William Shakespeare
“For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th' unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?”
Suicide Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, i)
“And the more pity that great folk should have count'nance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than their even-Christen.”
Suicide Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Clown at V, i)
“Why, he that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death.”
Suicide Quotes
Source: Julius Caesar (Casca at III, i)
“You ever-gentle gods, take my breath from me; Let not my worser spirit tempt me again To die before you please.”
Suicide Quotes
Source: King Lear (Gloucester at IV, vi)
“The houses he makes last till doomsday.”
Undertakers Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Clown at V, i)
“Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son.-- This grave shall have a living monument. An hour of quiet shortly shall we see; Till then in patience our proceeding be.”
Monuments Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Claudius, King of Denmark at V, i)
“The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burrs, Losing both beauty and utility.”
Cowslips Quotes
Source: The Life of King Henry the Fifth (Burgundy at V, ii)
“The cowslips tall her pensioners be. In their gold coats spots you see: Those be rubies, fairy favors; In those freckles live their savors.”
Cowslips Quotes
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Fairy at II, i)
“A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets; As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood, Disasters in the sun; and the moist star Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse.”
Apparitions Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Horatio at I, i)
“There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave To tell us this.”
Apparitions Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Horatio at I, v)
“I can call spirits from the vasty deep.”
Apparitions Quotes
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Glendower at III, i)
“Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them?”
Apparitions Quotes
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Hotspur at III, i)
“What are these, So withered and so wild in their attire That took not like th' inhabitants o' th' earth And yet are on't?”
Apparitions Quotes
Source: Macbeth (Banquo at I, iii)
“Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee! I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw.”
Apparitions Quotes
Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at II, i)
“Now it is the time of night That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the churchway paths to glide.”
Apparitions Quotes
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Puck at V, i)
“His demand Springs not from Edward's well-meant honest love, Bur from deceit, bred by necessity; For how can tyrants safely govern home Unless abroad they purchase great alliance?”
Tyranny Quotes
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part III (Queen Margaret at III, iii)
“Bleed, bleed, poor Country! Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure, For goodness dare not check thee; wear thou thy wrongs, The title is affeered!”
Tyranny Quotes
Source: Macbeth (Macduff at IV, iii)
“O nation miserable, With an untitled tyrant bloody-sceptred, When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again, Since that the truest issue of thy throne By his own interdiction stands accursed And does blaspheme his breed?”
Tyranny Quotes
Source: Macbeth (Macduff at IV, iii)
“This tyrant, whole sole name blisters our tongues, Was once thought honest; you have loved him well; He hath not touched you yet.”
Tyranny Quotes
Source: Macbeth (Malcolm at IV, iii)
“But thou know'st this, 'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.”
Tyranny Quotes
Source: Pericles Prince of Tyre (Pericles at I, ii)
“I knew him tyrannous; and tyrants' fears Decrease not, but grow faster than the years; And should he doubt it, as no doubt he doth, That I should open to the list'ning air How many worthy princes' bloods were shed To keep his bed of blackness unlaid ope, To lop that doubt, he'll fill this land with arms And make pretense of wrong that I have done him; When all, for mine, if I may call offense, Must feel war's blow, who spares not innocence; Which love to all, of which thyself art one, Who now reproved'st me for't--”
Tyranny Quotes
Source: Pericles Prince of Tyre (Pericles at I, ii)
“For what is he they follow? Truly, gentlemen, A bloody tyrant and a homicide; One raised in blood and one in blood established; One that made means to come by what he hath, And slaughtered those that were the means to help him; A base foul stone, made precious by the foil Of England's chair, where he is falsely set; One that hath ever been God's enemy.”
Tyranny Quotes
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Richmond at V, iii)
“Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, Witch's mummy, maw and gulf Of the ravined salt-sea shark, Root of hemlock digged i' th' dark, Liver of blaspheming Jew, Gall of goat, and slips of yew Slivered in the moon's eclipse, Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips, Finger of birth-strangled babe Ditch-delivered by a drab Make the gruel thick and slab. Add there to a tiger's chaudron For th' ingredience of our cauldron.”
Yew Quotes
Source: Macbeth (Third Witch at IV, i)
“Mine honor's such a ring; My chastity's the jewel of our house, Bequeathed down from many ancestors, Which were the greatest obloquy i' th' world In me to lose.”
Chastity Quotes
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (Diana at IV, ii)
“A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them.”
Chastity Quotes
Source: As You Like It (Celia at III, iv)
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