Shakespeare Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

813 Shakespeare Quotes
“The rational hind Costard. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“A man of sovereign parts he is esteem'd; Well fitted in arts, glorious in arms: Nothing becomes him ill that he would well. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act ii. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act ii. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act ii. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“By my penny of observation. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“The boy hath sold him a bargain,—a goose. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“To sell a bargain well is as cunning as fast and loose. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“A very beadle to a humorous sigh. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid; Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege of all loiterers and malcontents. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“A buck of the first head. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Many can brook the weather that love not the wind. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“You two are book-men. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Dictynna, goodman Dull. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“These are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? Learning is but an adjunct to ourself. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“It adds a precious seeing to the eye. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“As sweet and musical As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair; And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Priscian! a little scratched, 't will serve. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“In the posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude call the afternoon. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“They have measured many a mile To tread a measure with you on this grass. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes