William Shakespeare Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

2,311 Famous Quotes by William Shakespeare
“What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours.”
Merriment Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, ii)
“Hostess, clap to the doors. Watch to-night, pray to-morrow. Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you! What, shall we be merry? Shall we have a play extempore.”
Merriment Quotes
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Falstaff at II, iv)
“And if you can be merry then, I'll say A man may weep upon his wedding day.”
Merriment Quotes
Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Speaker at prologue)
“We never valued this poor seat of England, And therefore, living hence, did give ourself To barbarous license; as 'tis ever common That men are merriest when they are from home.”
Merriment Quotes
Source: The Life of King Henry the Fifth (King Henry at I, ii)
“So the gods bless me, When all our offices have been oppressed With riotous feeders, when our vaults have wept With drunken spilth of wine, when every room Hath blazed with lights and brayed with minstrelsy, I have retired me to a wasteful cock And set mine eyes at flow.”
Merriment Quotes
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Steward at II, ii)
“Berowne they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal.”
Merriment Quotes
Source: Love's Labor's Lost (Rosaline at II, i)
“To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.”
Merriment Quotes
Source: Love's Labor's Lost (Berowne at V, ii)
“Be large in mirth; anon we'll drink a measure The table round.”
Merriment Quotes
Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at III, iv)
“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, And let my liver rather heat with wine Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.”
Merriment Quotes
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Gratiano at I, i)
“For the heavens, he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long.”
Merriment Quotes
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice at II, i)
“(Pedro:) In faith, lady, you have a merry heart. (Beatrice:) Yea, my lord; I thank it, poor fool, it keeps on the windy side of care.”
Merriment Quotes
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Pedro & Beatrice at II, i)
“(Pedro:) Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best becomes you for out o' question you were born in a merry hour. (Beatrice:) No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born.”
Merriment Quotes
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Pedro & Beatrice at II, i)
“I am not merry; but I do beguile The thing I am by seeming otherwise.”
Merriment Quotes
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Desdemona at II, i)
“Therefore they thought it good for hear a play And frame your mind to mirth and merriment, Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.”
Merriment Quotes
Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Messenger at induction, ii)
“Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.”
Merriment Quotes
Source: The Tempest (Ariel at V, i)
“Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a. A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a.”
Merriment Quotes
Source: The Winter's Tale (Song at IV, iii)
“Address yourself to entertain them sprightly, And let's be red with mirth.”
Merriment Quotes
Source: The Winter's Tale (Florizel at IV, iv)
“Had she been light, like you, Of such a merry, nimble, stirring spirit, She might ha' been a grandam ere she died; And so may you, for a light heart lives long.”
Cheerfulness Quotes
Source: Love's Labor's Lost (Katharine at V, ii)
“Pluck up thy spirits, look cheerfully upon me. Here, love, thou seest how diligent I am To dress thy meat myself and bring it thee.”
Cheerfulness Quotes
Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio at IV, iii)
“He makes a July's day short as December, And with his varying childness cures in me Thoughts that would thick my blood.”
Cheerfulness Quotes
Source: The Winter's Tale (Polixenes at I, ii)
“As long as there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man must behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness was not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.”
Cheerfulness Quotes
Source: The Winter's Tale (Polixenes at I, ii)
“Man delights not me--nor woman neither, though, by your smiling you seem to say so.”
Delight Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at II, ii)
“Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain: As, painfully to pore upon a book, To seek the light of truth, which truth the while Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look.”
Delight Quotes
Source: Love's Labor's Lost (Berowne at I, i)
“This Tharsus, o'er which I have the government, A city on whom Plenty held full hand, For Riches strewed herself even in her streets; Whose towers bore heads so high they kissed the clouds, And strangers ne'er beheld but wond'red at; Whose men and dames so jetted and adorned, Like one another's glass to trim them by; Their tables were stored full, to glad the sight, And not so much to feed on as delight; All poverty was scorned, and pride so great The name of help grew odious to repeat.”
Delight Quotes
Source: Pericles Prince of Tyre (Cleon at I, iv)
“These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume.”
Delight Quotes
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at II, vi)
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