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William Shakespeare Quotes and Quotations

Best William Shakespeare Quotes and Quotations

Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good that we oft may win, By fearing to attempt

William Shakespeare


Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

William Shakespeare Witches in Macbeth


Love sought is good, but given unsought is better

William Shakespeare


We know what we are, but know not what we may become

William Shakespeare


How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world!

William Shakespeare


I count myselt in nothing else so happy As in a soul rememb'ring my good friends.

William Shakespeare


May the worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Richard III


Thou wilt be as valiant as the wrathful dove, or most magnanimous mouse.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Henry IV


To thine own self be true.

William Shakespeare


It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.

William Shakespeare


Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar I.ii.


Sweet are the uses of adversity.

William Shakespeare


Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak Whispers the o're-fraught heart, and bids it break.

William Shakespeare The Tragedy of Macbeth, IV, iii


[Thou] mountain of mad flesh!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Comedy of Errors


[Thou art] a disease that must be cut away.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Coriolanus


Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger: Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.

William Shakespeare King Henry V , Act 3 scene 1


O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! The should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels, Leashed-in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire, Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles all, The flat unraisted spirits that have dared On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt? O, pardon! since a crooked figure may Attest in little place a million; And let us, ciphers to this great accompt, On your imaginary forces work.

William Shakespeare


It is a wise father that knows his own child

William Shakespeare


To me, fair friend, you never can be old For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still.

William Shakespeare


Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

William Shakespeare


There was a star danced, and under that was I born.

William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing


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