Shakespeare Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

813 Shakespeare Quotes
“I have an exposition of sleep come upon me. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iv. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iv. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iv. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“For never anything can be amiss, When simpleness and duty tender it. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“The true beginning of our end. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“The best in this kind are but shadows. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, Nor to one place. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“You have too much respect upon the world: They lose it that do buy it with much care. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,— A stage, where every man must play a part; And mine a sad one. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Why should a man whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster? -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark! -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft, I shot his fellow of the selfsame flight The selfsame way, with more advised watch, To find the other forth; and by adventuring both, I oft found both. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
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