Top 100 William Shakespeare Quotes

#1. I am wealthy in my friends.

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#2. And pity, like a new-born babe,
Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, horsed
Upon the sightless couriers of the air,
Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,
That tears shall drown the wind.

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#3. The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.

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#4. Come on, come on; you are pictures out of doors,
Bells in your parlours, wild cats in your kitchens,
Saints in your injuries, devils being offended,
Players in your housewifery, and housewives in your beds.

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#5. Your wisdom is consum'd in confidence. Do not go forth to-day.

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#6. I have a kind soul that would give you thanks. And knows not how to do it but with tears.

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#7. Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights;
Four nights will quickly dream away the time.

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#8. This we prescribe, though no physician;
Deep malice makes too deep incision;
Forget, forgive; conclude and be agreed;
Our doctors say this is no month to bleed.

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#9. 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.

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#10. Allow not nature more than nature needs.

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#11. Heaven give you many, many merry days.

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#12. I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels.

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#13. So shaken as we are, so wan with care,
Find we a time for frighted peace to pant
And breathe short-winded accents of new broils
To be commenced in stronds afar remote.

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#14. Someone steals my good reputation from me, then he really does make me truly poor, and steals something that doesn't even make him any richer.

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#15. Yet I am doubtful, for I am mainly ignorant. What place this is, and all the skill I have
Remembers not these garments. Nor I know not
Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me,
For as I am a man, I think this lady
To be my child Cordelia.

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#16. I am asham'd that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace.

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#17. RUMOUR:
Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,
The which in every language I pronounce,
Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.

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#18. She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men dote How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so.

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#19. Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus.

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#20. In Shakespeare's time, as in ours and all other times, the paths of men and women do not often run in exactly the same directions, except to the common graves that hold us all.

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#21. After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.

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#22. If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear.

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

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#24. Demand me nothing: what you know, you know.

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#25. It is not nor it cannot come to good.

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#26. Nought's had, all's spent, where our desire is got without content.

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#27. Heaven would that she these gifts should have, and I to live and die her slave.

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#28. Observe him, for the love of mockery

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#29. O that a lady, of one man refused,
Should of another therefore be abused!

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#30. Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies.

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#31. I wear not motley in my brain.

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#32. War is no strife
To the dark house and the detested wife.

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#33. Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire; that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.

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#34. Within the book and volume of thy brain ...

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#35. How my achievements mock me!

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#36. Ay, when fowls have no feathers and fish have no fin.

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#37. Pour on, I will endure.

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#38. Yet, fortune cannot recompense me better
Than to die well, and not my master's debtor.

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#39. For their love
Llies in their purses, and whoso empties them
By so much fills their hearts with deadly hate.

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#40. Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.

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#41. Blest are those
Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled,
That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger
To sound what stop she please.

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#42. A little more than kin, a little less than kind.

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#43. It is thyself, mine own self's better part; Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart; My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope's aim, My sole earth's heaven, and my heaven's claim.

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#44. Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish.

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#45. Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.

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#46. The appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremony.

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#47. You never know what is the next direction your life will take

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#48. Something's rotten in Denmark." ~~Hamlet

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#49. You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.

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#50. For conspiracy,
I know not how it tastes, though it be dished
For me to try how.

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#51. For what good turn?
Messenger: For the best turn of the bed.

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#52. Britain is A world by itself, and we will nothing pay For wearing our own noses.

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#53. What should we speak of When we are old as you? when we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December? how, In this our pinching cave, shall we discourse The freezing hours away? ...

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#54. Hang those that talk of fear.

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#55. They that have voice of lions and act of hares,
are they not monsters?

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#56. See you now your bait of falsehood take this carp of truth; and thus do we of wisdom and of reach, with windlasses and with assays of bias, by indirections find directions out.

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#57. You have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead.

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#58. You are my true and honourable wife;
As dear to me as the ruddy drops
That visit my sad heart.

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#59. Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

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#60. Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou hadst been poor-John.

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

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#62. The leopard does not change his spots.

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#63. 'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay. The bay trees in our country are all wither'd.

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#64. She is a woman, therefore to be won.

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#65. For it falls out
That what we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost,
Why, then we rack the value, then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us
While it was ours.

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#66. Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.

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#67. Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.

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#68. It were for me
To throw my sceptre at the injurious gods;
To tell them that this world did equal theirs
Till they had stolen our jewel.

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#69. Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?

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#70. Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.

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#71. I must be gone and live, or stay and die.

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#72. Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art, As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel; For well thou know'st to my dear doting heart Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel.

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#73. Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother: I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth.

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#74. O be some other name.

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#75. That they lack, for if their heads had any intellectual armour they could never wear such heavy headpieces

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#76. Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

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#77. And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.

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#78. Old Time the clock-setter.

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#79. These, indeed, seem; For they are actions that a man might play; But I have that within which passes show - [85] These but the trappings and the suits of woe.166

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#80. Beatrice: I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior Benedick: nobody marks you.
Benedick: What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?

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#81. Coins always make sound but currency notes are always silent, so when ever your value increases keep yourself calm and silent.

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#82. Brabantio: "You are a villain!"
Iago: "You are a senator!

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#83. Men must learn now with pity to dispense;
For policy sits above conscience.

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#84. A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.

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#85. Profit is a blessing, if it's not stolen.

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#86. Words, words, words. Polonius

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#87. O, were mine eyeballs into bullets turn'd, That I in rage might shoot them at your faces!

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#88. T'is true: there's magic in the web of it ...

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#89. The error of our eye directs our mind.
What error leads must err.

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#90. To mourn a mischief that is past and gone
Is the next way to draw new mischief on.

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#91. Laughing Faces Do Not Mean That There Is Absence Of Sorrow! But It Means That They Have The Ability To Deal With It

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#92. 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

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#93. It is surely significant, for instance, that Romeo and Juliet was written at around the same time as The Merchant of Venice, a play that is preoccupied with the whole question of freedom of choice and its consequences.4

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#94. So many miseries have craz'd my voice,
That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute.

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#95. ROMEO

By heaven, I love thee better than myself,
For I come hither arm'd against myself.

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#96. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

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#97. As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor.

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#98. An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation.

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#99. Heaven - the treasury of everlasting life.

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#100. The grief that does not speak whispers the o'erfraught heart and bids it break.

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