William Shakespeare Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

2,311 Famous Quotes by William Shakespeare
“And in the morn and liquid dew of youth, Contagious blastments are are most imminent.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Laertes at I, iii)
“Beware Of entrance to a quarrel.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius at I, iii)
“Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius at I, iii)
“Give thy thoughts no tongue.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius at I, iii)
“Springes to catch woodcocks.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius at I, iii)
“The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius at I, iii)
“Leave her to Heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Ghost at I, v)
“One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at I, v)
“For murder though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at II, ii)
“Still harping on my daughter.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius at II, ii)
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at II, ii)
“And with them words of so sweet breath composed As made the things more rich.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Ophelia at III, i)
“Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, i)
“Rich gifts wax poor, when givers prove unkind.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Ophelia at III, i)
“Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, i)
“Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, i)
“'Tis too much proved,--that with devotion's visage, And pious action, we do sugar o'er The devil himself.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius at III, i)
“With devotion's visage, And pious action, we do sugar o'er The devil himself.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius at III, i)
“Here's metal more attractive.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, ii)
“Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, ii)
“Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Ghost at III, iv)
“For use almost can change the stamp of nature.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, iv)
“I must be cruel only to be kind.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, iv)
“That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat Of habit's devil.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, iv)
“Diseases, desperate grown, By desperate appliance are reliev'd, Or not at all.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Claudius, King of Denmark at IV, iii)