William Shakespeare Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

2,311 Famous Quotes by William Shakespeare
“Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honored love, I rather would entreat thy company To see the wonders of the world abroad Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.”
Idleness Quotes
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Valentine at I, i)
“Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.”
Pen Quotes
Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Toby at III, ii)
“Now, good Cesario, but that piece of song, That old and antique song we heard last night. Methought it did relieve my passion much, More than light airs and recollected terms Of these most brisk and giddy-paced times. Come, but one verse.”
Songs Quotes
Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Orsino, Duke of Illyria at II, iv)
“And then a whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing, as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure.”
Swearing Quotes
Source: Cymbeline (Cloten at II, i)
“When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.”
Swearing Quotes
Source: Cymbeline (Cloten at II, i)
“I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom.”
Swearing Quotes
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Falstaff at I, ii)
“That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.”
Swearing Quotes
Source: Measure for Measure (Isabella at II, ii)
“Do not swear at all; Or if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self, Which is the god of my idolatry, And I'll believe thee.”
Swearing Quotes
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at II, ii)
“So soon as ever thou seest him, draw; and as thou draw'st, swear horrible; for it comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.”
Swearing Quotes
Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Toby at III, iv)
“Prithee, friend, Pour out the pack of matter to mine ear, The good and the bad together: he's friends with Caesar, In state of health, thou say'st, and thou say'st, free.”
News Quotes
Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra at II, v)
“Ram thou fruitful tidings in mine ears, That long time have been barren.”
News Quotes
Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra at II, V)
“Though it be honest, it is never good To bring bad news; give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt.”
News Quotes
Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra at II, v)
“(Celia:) Here come Monsieur Le Beau. (Rosalind:) With his mouth full of news. (Celia:) Which he will put on us as pigeons feed their young. (Rosalind:) Then shall we be news-crammed.”
News Quotes
Source: As You Like It (Celia & Rosalind at I, ii)
“If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st But keep that count'nance still.”
News Quotes
Source: Cymbeline (Imogen at III, iv)
“There's villainous news abroad.”
News Quotes
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Falstaff at II, iv)
“Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office, and his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, Rememb'red tolling a departing friend.”
News Quotes
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (Northumberland at I, i)
“(Pistol:) And tidings do I bring and lucky joys And golden times and happy news of price. (Falstaff:) I pray thee now, deliver them like a man of this world.”
News Quotes
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (Pistol & Falstaff at V, iii)
“Ten day ago I drowned these news in tears; And now, to add more measure to your woes, I come to tell you things sith then befallen.”
News Quotes
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part III (Warwick at II, i)
“O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night, Black, fearful, comfortless, and horrible.”
News Quotes
Source: The Life and Death of King John (Hubert at V, vi)
“My heart hath one poor string to stay it by, Which holds but till thy news be uttered, And then all this thou seest is but a clod And module of confounded royalty.”
News Quotes
Source: The Life and Death of King John (King John at V, vii)
“Master, master, old news! And such news as you never heard of!”
News Quotes
Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Biondello at III, ii)
“How goes it now, sir? This news which is called true is so like an old tale that the verity of it is in strong suspicion.”
News Quotes
Source: The Winter's Tale (Second Gentleman at V, ii)
“O shame, where is thy blush?”
Shame Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, iv)
“Mort de ma vie! all is confounded, all! Reproach and everlasting shame Sits mocking in our plumes.”
Shame Quotes
Source: The Life of King Henry the Fifth (Dauphin at IV, v)
“He was not born to shame. Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit; For 'tis a throne where honor may be crowned Sole monarch of the universal earth.”
Shame Quotes
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at III, ii)
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