Shakespeare Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

813 Shakespeare Quotes
“I am all the daughters of my father's house, And all the brothers too. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 4.”
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“An you had any eye behind you, you might see more detraction at your heels than fortunes before you. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 5.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 5.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Oh, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful In the contempt and anger of his lip! -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Let there be gall enough in thy ink; though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 2.”
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“I think we do know the sweet Roman hand. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Put thyself into the trick of singularity. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“'T is not for gravity to play at cherry-pit with Satan. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“This is very midsummer madness. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“What, man! defy the Devil: consider, he is an enemy to mankind. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.”
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“More matter for a May morning. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Still you keep o' the windy side of the law. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“An I thought he had been valiant and so cunning in fence, I 'ld have seen him damned ere I' ld have challenged him. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.”
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“-Clo.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. -Twelfth Night. Act v. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“For the rain it raineth every day. -Twelfth Night. Act v. Sc. 1.”
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“They say we are Almost as like as eggs. -The Winter's Tale. Act i. Sc. 2.”
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“What 's gone and what 's past help Should be past grief. -The Winter's Tale. Act iii. Sc. 2.”
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“A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 3.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phœbus in his strength,—a malady Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4.”
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“To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4.”
William Shakespeare Quotes