William Shakespeare Quotes

“I'll have no husband, if you be not he.”

“I have thrust myself into this maze,Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.”

“An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind.”

“O wretched state! o bosom black as death!”

“Blind is his love, and best befits the dark.”

“Haply a woman's voice may do some goodWhen articles too nicely urged be stood on.”

“The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.”

“Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.”

“They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.”

“Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm.”

“No longer mourn for me when I am dead than you shall hear the surly sullen bell give warning to the world that I am fled from this vile world with vilest worms to dwell: nay, if you read this line, remember not the hand that writ it, for I love you so, that I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, if thinking on me then should make you woe. O! if, I say, you look upon this verse when I perhaps compounded am with clay, do not so much as my poor name rehearse; but let your love even with my life decay; lest the wise world should look into your moan, and mock you with me after I am gone.”

“Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude; of which we being members, should bring ourselves to be monstrous members.”

“What, keep a week away? Seven days and nights,Eightscore-eight hours, and lovers' absent hoursMore tedious than the dial eightscore times!O weary reckoning!”

“Some sins do bear their privilege on earth,And so doth yours: your fault was not your folly;Needs must you lay your heart at his dispose,Subjected tribute to commanding love,Against whose fury and unmatched forceThe aweless lion could not wage the fightNor keep his princely heart from Richard's hand.”

“You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”

“I am not prone to weeping as our sex commonly are; the want of which vain dew perchance shall dry your pities;but I have that honorable grief lodged here which burns worse than tears drown.”

“Thou hast the most unsavoury similes.”

“They have a plentiful lack of wit.”

“A woman impudent and mannish grownIs not more loath'd than an effeminate man.”

“He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.”

“O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . . She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomi Athwart men’s noses as they lie asleep.”

“Doubt is a thief that often makes us fear to tread where we might have won.”

“Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.”

“Every subject's duty is the Kings, but every subject's soul is his own.”

“It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.”