William Shakespeare Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

2,311 Famous Quotes by William Shakespeare
“I go, I go, look how I go, Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow.”
Haste Quotes
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Puck at III, ii)
“It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say 'It lightens.'”
Haste Quotes
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at II, ii)
“Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.”
Haste Quotes
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at II, iii)
“Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short; He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding doth choke the feeder; Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.”
Haste Quotes
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Gaunt at II, i)
“(Goneril:) I have been worth the whistle. (Albany:) O Goneril, You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face.”
Worth Quotes
Source: King Lear (Goneril & Albany at IV, ii)
“I would that I were low laid in my grave. I am not worth this coil that's made for me.”
Worth Quotes
Source: The Life and Death of King John (Arthur at II, i)
“Now, good my lord, Let there be some more test made of my mettle Before so noble and so great a figure Be stamped upon it.”
Worth Quotes
Source: Measure for Measure (Angelo at I, i)
“O, how thy worth with manners may I sing When thou art all the better part of me? What can mine own praise to mine own self bring, And what is't but mine own when I praise thee?”
Worth Quotes
Source: Sonnet XXXIX
“The capon burns, the pig falls from the spit, The clock hath strucken twelve upon the bell; My mistress made it one upon my cheek: She is so hot because the meat is cold; The meat is cold because you come not home; You come not home because you have no stomach; You have no stomach, having broke your fast; But we, that know what 'tis to fast and pray, Are penitent for your default to-day.”
Cookery Quotes
Source: The Comedy of Errors (Dromio of Ephesus at I, ii)
“He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried? Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting. Have I not tarried? Ay, the bolting; but you must tarry the leavening. Still have I tarried. Ay, to the leavening; but here's yet in the word 'hereafter' the kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and the baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance to burn your lips.”
Cookery Quotes
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Pandarus & Troilus at I, i)
“Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds.”
Cookery Quotes
Source: Julius Caesar (Brutus at II, i)
“Would the cook were o' my mind!”
Cookery Quotes
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (John at I, iii)
“She would have made Hercules have turned spit, yea, and have cleft his club to make the fire too.”
Cookery Quotes
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Benedick at II, i)
“How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns.”
Habit Quotes
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Valentine at V, iv)
“Who worse than a physician Would this report become? But I consider By med'cine life may be prolonged, yet death Will seize the doctor too. How ended she?”
Medicine Quotes
Source: Cymbeline (Cymbeline at V, iv)
“I bought an unction of a mountebank, So mortal that, but dip a knife in it, Where it draws blood so cataplasm so rare, Collected from all simples that have virtue Under the moon, can save the thing from death That is but scratched withal. I'll touch my point With this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly, It may be death.”
Medicine Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Laertes at IV, vii)
“In poison there is physic; and these news, Having been well, that would have made me sick, Being sick, have in some measure made me well.”
Medicine Quotes
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (Northumberland at I, i)
“Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just.”
Medicine Quotes
Source: King Lear (King Lear at III, iv)
“'Tis time to give 'em physic, their diseases Are grown so catching.”
Medicine Quotes
Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Sandys at I, iii)
“But in this point All his tricks founder and he brings his physic After his patient's death: the king already Hath married the fair lady.”
Medicine Quotes
Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Chamberlain at III, ii)
“Trust not the physician; His antidotes are poison, and he slays More than you rob.”
Medicine Quotes
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Timon at IV, iii)
“(Macbeth:) How does your patient, doctor? (Doctor:) Not so sick, my lord, As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies That keep her from her rest. (Macbeth:) Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory of a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffed bosom of the perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart? (Doctor:) Therein the patient Must minister to himself. (Macbeth:) Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it!”
Medicine Quotes
Source: Macbeth (Macbeth & Doctor at V, iii)
“In such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew, And saw the lion's shadow ere himself, And ran dismayed away.”
Medicine Quotes
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Jessica at V, i)
“I do remember an apothecary, And hereabouts 'a dwells, which late I noted In tatt'red weeds, with overwhelming brows, Culling of simples. Meagre were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to the bones; And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuffed, and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes, Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds, Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses Were thinly scattered, to make up a show.”
Medicine Quotes
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at V, i)
“You rub the sore When you should bring the plaster!”
Medicine Quotes
Source: The Tempest (Gonzalo at II, i)
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