William Shakespeare Quotes

“Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.”

“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.”

“I'll teach you differences.”

“Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.”

“If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law.”

“The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason.”

“If ever thou shalt love,In the sweet pangs of it remember me;For such as I am all true lovers are,Unstaid and skittish in all motions elseSave in the constant image of the creatureThat is beloved.”

“Unsubstantial Death is amorous.”

“. . . nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death To throw away the dearest thing he owed, As 'twere a careless trifle.”

“Time, that takes survey of all the world,Must have a stop.”

“One half of me is yours, the other half is yours, Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours.”

“The time is out of joint.”

“Sound trumpets! Let our bloody colours wave! And either victory, or else a grave.”

“War is no strife To the dark house and the detested wife.”

“Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.”

“Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox, Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and locked up, Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.”

“I am declinedInto the vale of years.”

“If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage.”

“Love sees with the heart and not with mind.”

“What need the bridge much broader than the flood?”

“Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.”

“I say, without characters, fame lives long.”

“Bounty, being free itself, thinks all others so.”

“This liberty is all that I request.”

“Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.”