William Shakespeare Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

2,311 Famous Quotes by William Shakespeare
“For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.”
Joy Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Ophelia at IV, v)
“My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow.”
Joy Quotes
Source: Macbeth (Duncan, King of Scotland at I, iv)
“Nobly he yokes A smiling with a sigh, as if the sigh Was that it was for not being such a smile; The smile mocking the sigh that it would fly From so divine a temple to commix With winds that sailors rail at.”
Smiles Quotes
Source: Cymbeline (Arviragus at IV, ii)
“My tables--meet it is I set it down That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain. At least I am sure it may be so in Denmark.”
Smiles Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at I, v)
“Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mocked himself and scorned his spirit That could be moved to smile at anything.”
Smiles Quotes
Source: Julius Caesar (Caesar at I, ii)
“You have seen Sunshine and rain at once--her smiles and tears Were like, a better way: those happy smilets That played on her ripe lip seemed not to know What guests were in her eyes, which parted thence As pearls from diamonds dropped.”
Smiles Quotes
Source: King Lear (Gentleman at IV, iii)
“. . . For slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.”
Slander Quotes
Source: The Comedy of Errors (Baltzhazar at III, i)
“No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath Rides on the posting winds and doth belie All corners of the world. Kings, queens. and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.”
Slander Quotes
Source: Cymbeline (Pisanio at III, iv)
“And truly, I'll devise some honest slanders To stain my cousin with. One doth not know How much an ill word may empoison liking.”
Slander Quotes
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Hero at III, i)
“God knows I loved my niece, And she is dead, slandered to death by villains, That dare as well answer a man indeed As I dare take a serpent by the tongue. Boys, apes, braggarts, Jacks, milksops!”
Slander Quotes
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Antonio at V, i)
“Done to death by slanderous tongues Was the Hero that here lies.”
Slander Quotes
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Claudio at V, iii)
“I will be hanged if some eternal villain, Some busy and insinuating rogue, Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office, Have not devised this slander.”
Slander Quotes
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Emilia at IV, ii)
“That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of beauty is suspect, A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air. So thou be good, slander doth but approve Thy worth the greater, being wooed of time; For canker vice the sweetest buds doth love, And thou present'st a pure unstained prime.”
Slander Quotes
Source: Sonnet LXX
“I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here; Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear, The which no balm can cure but his heart-blood Which breathed this poison.”
Slander Quotes
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Mowbray at I, i)
“If I can do it By aught that I can speak in his dispraise, She shall not long continue love to him.”
Slander Quotes
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Proteus at III, ii)
“Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.”
Calumny Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Laertes at I, III)
“If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.”
Calumny Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, i)
“No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?”
Calumny Quotes
Source: Measure for Measure (Vincentio, the Duke at III, ii)
“Praise her but for this her without-door form-- Which on my faith deserves high speech--and straight The shrug, the hum or ha, these pretty brands That calumny doth use--O, I am out, That mercy does, for calumny will sear Virtue itself--these shrugs, these hums and ha's, When you have said she's goodly, come between Ere you can say she's honest.”
Calumny Quotes
Source: The Winter's Tale (Leontes at II, i)
“But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told, And in the last repeating troublesome, Being urged at a time unreasonable.”
Gossip Quotes
Source: The Life and Death of King John (Pembroke at IV, ii)
“Foul whisp'rings are abroad.”
Gossip Quotes
Source: Macbeth (Doctor of Physic at V, i)
“(Salerio:) . . . if my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word. (Solanio:) I would she were as lying a gossip in that as ever knapped ginger or made her neighbors believe she wept for the death of a third husband.”
Gossip Quotes
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Salerio & Solanio at III, i)
“For 'tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petar, and 't shall go hard But I will delve one yard below their mines And blow them at the moon.”
Injury Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, iv)
“I have offended reputation, A most unnoble swerving.”
Reputation Quotes
Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Antony at III, xi)
“I see my reputation is at stake; My fame is shrewdly gored.”
Reputation Quotes
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Achilles at III, iii)
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