Quotes by
William Shakespeare |
1564-1616 , English poet & playwright
English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.His extant works consist of approximately 38 plays,154 sonnets, two long narrative poems.
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Quotations
| • | There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. — Romeo & Juliet 37 |
| • | The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. — As You Like It 16 |
| • | Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it. — Macbeth 14 |
| • | Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. — Julius Caesar 13 |
| • | If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? — The Merchant of Venice 10 |
| • | God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another. — Hamlet 10 |
| • | All the world 's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts. — As You Like It 9 |
| • | To be, or not to be: that is the question. — Hamlet 7 |
| • | Doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love. — Hamlet 6 |
| • | Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none. — All's Well That Ends Well 6 |
| • | There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in our philosophy. — Hamlet 6 |
| • | Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed. — Henry IV 5 |
| • | Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. — Measure for Measure 5 |
| • | The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. — Julius Caesar 5 |
| • | The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. — Henry VI 5 |
| • | The lady doth protest too much, methinks. — Hamlet 5 |
| • | As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport. — King Lear 5 |
| • | So shaken as we are, so wan with care. — Henry IV 4 |
| • | Brevity is the soul of wit. — Hamlet 4 |
| • | Cry “Havoc,” and let slip the dogs of war. — Julius Caesar 4 |
| • | Delays have dangerous ends. — Henry IV 4 |
| • | For ever and a day. — As You Like It 4 |
| • | I am one who loved not wisely but too well. — Othello 4 |
| • | I will speak daggers to her, but use none. — Hamlet 4 |
| • | My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. — Hamlet 4 |
| • | Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. — Measure for Measure 4 |
| • | We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. — The Tempest 4 |
| • | When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. — Hamlet 4 |
| • | Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead. — Henry V 4 |
| • | Before you tumbled me, You promised me to wed. (Ophelia to Hamlet) 4 |
| • | Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em. — Twelfth Night 3 |
| • | But love is blind, and lovers cannot see. — The Merchant of Venice 3 |
| • | Can one desire too much of a good thing? — As You Like It 3 |
| • | Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. — Hamlet 3 |
| • | If music be the food of love, play on. — Twelfth Night 3 |
| • | Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. — Hamlet 3 |
| • | Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. — Much Ado about Nothing 3 |
| • | There 's daggers in men's smiles. Macbeth 3 |
| • | The worst is not, So long as we can say, “This is the worst.” — King Lear 3 |
| • | There 's daggers in men's smiles. — Macbeth 3 |
| • | Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. — Henry IV 3 |
| • | We know what we are, but know not what we may be. — Hamlet 3 |
| • | Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- it’s everything except what it is! — Romeo and Juliet 3 |
| • | There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat, and grows old. (the fat one was Falstaff) — Henry IV 2 |
| • | It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest for ever. — Henry IV 2 |
| • | A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! — Richard III 2 |
| • | Action is eloquence. — Coriolanus 2 |
| • | All that glisters is not gold. — The Merchant of Venice 2 |
| • | Beware the ides of March. — Julius Caesar 2 |
| • | But, for my own part, it was Greek to me. — Julius Caesar 2 |
| • | Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe. — Julius Caesar 2 |
| • | For you and I are past our dancing days. — Romeo and Juliet 2 |
| • | I would give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety. — Henry V 2 |
| • | Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. — The Tempest 2 |
| • | Now is the winter of our discontent. — King Richard III 2 |
| • | Off with his head! — King Richard III 2 |
| • | Small things make base men proud. — Henry VI 2 |
| • | Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. — Henry IV 2 |
| • | There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. — Hamlet 2 |
| • | True is it that we have seen better days. — As You Like It 2 |
| • | What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. — Romeo and Juliet 2 |
| • | Why, then the world 's mine oyster. — Merry Wives of Windsor 2 |
| • | Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. — Julius Caesar 2 |
| • | That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness? — Much Ado About Nothing 2 |
| • | Journeys end in lovers meeting. — Twelfth Night 2 |
