William Shakespeare Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

2,311 Famous Quotes by William Shakespeare
“How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell; Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.”
Results Quotes
Source: King Lear (Albany at I, iv)
“Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.”
Results Quotes
Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at III, ii)
“Thou marvell'st at my words, but hold thee still; Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.”
Results Quotes
Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at III, ii)
“Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions, Setting endeavor in continual motion; To which is fixed as an aim or butt Obedience; for so work the honeybees, Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The act of order to a peopled kingdom. They have a king, and officers of sorts, Where some like magistrates correct at home, Others like merchants venture trade abroad, Others like soldiers armed in their stings Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor, Who, busied in his majesties, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil citizens kneading up the honey, The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate, The sad-eyed justice with his surly hum Delivering o'er to executors pale The lazy yawning drone.”
Bees Quotes
Source: The Life of King Henry the Fifth (Canterbury at I, ii)
“To apprehend thus Draws us a profit from all things we see, And often, to our comfort, shall we find The sharded beetle in a safer hold Than is the full-winged eagle.”
Beetles Quotes
Source: Cymbeline (Belarius at III, iii)
“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.”
Beetles Quotes
Source: Measure for Measure (Isabella at III, i)
“The sense of death is most in apprehension.”
Beetles Quotes
Source: Measure for Measure (Isabella at III, i)
“The glowworm shows the matin to be near And gins to pale his uneffectual fire.”
Glowworms Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Ghost at I, v)
“O Regan, she hath tied Sharp-toothed unkindness, like a vulture, here.”
Unkindness Quotes
Source: King Lear (King Lear at II, iv)
“Unkindness may do much; And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.”
Unkindness Quotes
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Desdemona at IV, ii)
“In nature there's no blemish but the mind; None can be called deformed but the unkind.”
Unkindness Quotes
Source: Twelfth night, or, What You Will (Antonio at III, iv)
“Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale. Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to th' rooky wood. Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, While night's black agents to their prey do rouse.”
Crows Quotes
Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at III, ii)
“The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many thing by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!”
Crows Quotes
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Portia at V, i)
“That were to blow at fire in hope to quench it; For who digs hills because they do aspire Throws down one mountain to cast up a higher.”
Mountains Quotes
Source: Pericles Prince of Tyre (Dionyza at I, iv)
“The mountain was in labour, and Jove was afraid, but it brought forth a mouse.”
Mountains Quotes
Source: Pericles Prince of Tyre (Dionyza at I, iv)
“So shall you hear Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts, Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters, Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause, And, in this upshot, purposes mistook Fall'n on th' inventors' heads.”
Errors Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Horatio at V, ii)
“Ah, poor our sex! this fault in us I find, The error of our eye directs our mind. What error leads must error.”
Errors Quotes
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Cressida at V, ii)
“This is your devoted friend, sir, the manifold linguist and the armipotent soldier.”
Linguists Quotes
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (Second Lord at IV, iii)
“But those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but for mine own part, if was Greek to me.”
Linguists Quotes
Source: Julius Caesar (Casca at I, ii)
“Away with him, away with him! He speaks Latin.”
Linguists Quotes
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part II (Cade at IV, vii)
“O, good my lord, no Latin! I am not such a truant since my coming As not to know the language I have lived in. A strnage tongue makes my cause more strnage, suspicious. Pray speak in English.”
Linguists Quotes
Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Katherine at III, i)
“He plays o' th' viol-de-gamboys, and speaks three or four languages word for word without book, and hath all the good gifts of nature.”
Linguists Quotes
Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Toby at I, iii)
“But to the purpose--for we cite our faults That they may hold excused our lawless lives; And partly, seeing you are beautified With goodly shape, and by your own report A linguist, and a man of such perfection As we do in our quality much want--”
Linguists Quotes
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (First Outlaw at IV, i)
“If we do meet again, we'll smile indeed; If not, 'tis true this parting was well made.”
Parting Quotes
Source: Julius Caesar (Cassius at V, i)
“They say be parted well and paid his score, And so, God be with him.”
Parting Quotes
Source: Macbeth (Siward at V, viii)
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