Quotations by William Shakespeare

The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.

William Shakespeare · Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

William Shakespeare · All's Well that Ends Well. Act iii. Sc. 5.

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.

William Shakespeare · As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 3.

To sell a bargain well is as cunning as fast and loose.

William Shakespeare · Love's Labour's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.

Make the coming hour o'erflow with joy, And pleasure drown the brim.

William Shakespeare · All's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 4.

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

William Shakespeare · The Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 2.

O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side!

William Shakespeare · Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Speak low if you speak love.

William Shakespeare · Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.

We cannot hold mortality's strong hand.

William Shakespeare · King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.

Blow, blow, thou winter wind! Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude.

William Shakespeare · As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

William Shakespeare · King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.

That in the captain 's but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

William Shakespeare · Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.

Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it?

William Shakespeare · Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.

O, what authority and show of truth Can cunning sin cover itself withal!

William Shakespeare · Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.

Every one can master a grief but he that has it.

William Shakespeare · Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 2.

O, hell! to choose love by another's eyes.

William Shakespeare · A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.

From lowest place when virtuous things proceed, The place is dignified by the doer's deed.

William Shakespeare · All's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 3.

They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad.

William Shakespeare · Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

William Shakespeare · A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven.

William Shakespeare · All's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 1.

And he that stands upon a slippery place. Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up.

William Shakespeare · King John. Act iii. Sc. 4.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare · King John. Act iii. Sc. 4.

No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does.

William Shakespeare · Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.

Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.

William Shakespeare · Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3.