William Shakespeare Quotes

I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently.

There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone. When I was sure of losing, I won. When I needed people the most, they left me. When I learnt to dry my tears, I found a shoulder to cry on. And when I mastered the art of hating, somebody started loving me.

Love is a spirit all compact of fire.

It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.

O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is montegue? tis nor hand nor foot nor any other part belonging to a man What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, So Romeo would were he not Romeo called retain such dear perfection to which he owes without that title, Romeo, Doth thy name! And for that name which is no part of thee, take all thyself.

Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion

The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

Let's all cry peace, freedom, and liberty!

I have touched the highest point of all my greatness.

She will die if you love her not, And she will die ere she might make her love known

Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

Who is it can read a woman?

What a fool honesty is.

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

A harmless necessary cat.

Now is the winter of our discontent.

Let no such man be trusted.

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

Thou art the Mars of malcontents.

There is flattery in friendship.

What is thy sentence then but speechless death.

O, how full of briers is this working-day world!

we are the lords of all eternity

To whom God will, there be the victory.

Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties

The sun with one eye vieweth all the world.

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.

Ingratitude is monstrous.

Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life is done.

I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.

I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks.

Why, thou owest god a death.

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

I would give all of my fame for a pot of ale and safety.

Love that we cannot have is the one that lasts the longest,hurts the deepest,but feels the strongest

There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow.

Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.

Now I am past all comforts here, but prayer.

By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death and let it go which way it will he that dies this year is quit for the next

We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.

Speak on, but be not over-tedious.

My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.

We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.