William Shakespeare Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

2,311 Famous Quotes by William Shakespeare
“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
Parting Quotes
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at II, ii)
“I will go wash; And when my face is fair, you shall perceive Whether I blush or no.”
Blushes Quotes
Source: Coriolanus (Coriolanus at I, ix)
“I ask, that I might waken reverence, And bid the cheek be ready with a blush Modest as morning when she coldly eyes The youthful Phoebus, Which is that god in office, guiding men?”
Blushes Quotes
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Aeneas at I, iii)
“Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite, Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes, That banish what they sue for: redeem thy brother By yielding up thy body to my will, Or else he must not only die the death, But thy unkindess shall his death draw out To ling'ring sufferance.”
Blushes Quotes
Source: Measure for Measure (Angelo at II, iv)
“I have marked A thousand blushing apparitions To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames In angel whiteness beat away those blushes, And in her eye there hath appeared a fire To burn the errors that these princes hold Against her maiden truth.”
Blushes Quotes
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Friar Francis at IV, i)
“Yet will she blush, here be it said, To bear her secrets so bewrayed.”
Blushes Quotes
Source: The Passionate Pilgrim (XVIII, l. 53), a poem of doubtful authenticity
“His kindled duty kindled her mistrust, That two red fires in both faces blazed. She thought he blushed as knowing Tarquin's lust, And, blushing with him, wistly on him gazed; Her earnest eye did make him more amazed.”
Blushes Quotes
Source: The Rape of Lucrece (l. 1,352)
“Where now I have no one to blush with me, To cross their arms and hang their heads with mine, To mask their brows and hide their infamy; But I alone, alone must sit and pine, Seasoning the earth with show'rs of silver brine, Mingling my talk with tears, my grief with groans, Poor wasting monuments of lasting moans.”
Blushes Quotes
Source: The Rape of Lucrece (l. 792)
“E'en a crow o' th' same nest; not altogether so great as the first in goodness, but greater a great deal in evil. He excels his brother for a coward, yet his brother is reputed one of the best that is. In a retreat he outruns any lackey; marry, in coming on he has the cramp.”
Cowards Quotes
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (Parolles at IV, iii)
“Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this; for it will come to pass That every braggart shall be found an ass.”
Cowards Quotes
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (Parolles at IV, iii)
“You souls of geese, That bear the shapes of men, how have you run From slaves that apes would men!”
Cowards Quotes
Source: Coriolanus (Marcius at I, iv)
“So cowards fight when they can fly no further; So doves do peck the falcon's piercing talons; So desperate thieves, all hopeless of their lives, Breathe out invectives 'gainst the officers.”
Cowards Quotes
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part III (Clifford at I, iv)
“Thou dost shame That bloody spoil. Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou little valiant, great in villainy! Thou ever strong upon the stronger side! Thou fortune's champion, that dost never fight But when her humorous ladyship is by To teach thee safety!”
Cowards Quotes
Source: The Life and Death of King John (Constance at III, i)
“Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,' Like the poor cat i' th' adage?”
Cowards Quotes
Source: Macbeth (Lady Macbeth at I, vii)
“How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars, Who inward searched, have livers white as milk!”
Cowards Quotes
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Bassanio at III, ii)
“A coward, a most devout coward; religious in it.”
Cowards Quotes
Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Fabian at III, iv)
“If it be aught toward the general good, Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other, And I will look on both indifferently; For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honor more than I fear death.”
Choice Quotes
Source: Julius Caesar (Brutus at I, ii)
“Which of them shall I take? Both? One? Or neither? Neither can be enjoyed, If both remain alive. To take the widow Exasperates, makes mad her sister Goneril; And hardly shall I carry out my side, Her husband being alive.”
Choice Quotes
Source: King Lear (Edmund at V, i)
“I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.”
Choice Quotes
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Arragon at II, ix)
“Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first.”
Choice Quotes
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at I, i)
“Preferment goes by letter and affection.”
Choice Quotes
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at I, i)
“The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order.”
Order Quotes
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Ulysses at I, iii)
“Not a mouse Shall disturb this hallowed house. I am sent, with broom, before, To sweep the dust behind the door.”
Order Quotes
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Puck at V, i)
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulleth edge of husbandry.”
Borrowing Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius at I, iii)
“Sweets to the sweet! Farewell.”
Sweetness Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Gertrude, Queen of Denmark at V, i)
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