Top 100 Will Shakespeare Quotes
#1. With Will Shakespeare writing your government's propaganda, you can't go wrong, can you?
Peter Hambleton
#2. The smallest worm will turn being trodden on,
And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.
William Shakespeare
#3. The media love coarse debate because coarse debate drives ratings and ratings generate profits. Unless the TV producer happens to be William Shakespeare, an argument is more interesting than a soliloquy - and there will never be a shortage of people willing to argue on TV.
John Sununu
#4. This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.
Mark Akenside
#5. But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer,
Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep
In the affliction of these terrible dreams
That shake us nightly.
William Shakespeare
#6. The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time and I will stab you with this ink quill.
Cuthbert Soup
#7. O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From the world-wearied flesh
William Shakespeare
#8. If it be now, 'tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come - the readiness is all.
William Shakespeare
#10. If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart.
Mortimer J. Adler
#11. Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
William Shakespeare
#12. Shakespeare used the word 'flush' to indicate plenty of money. Well, just remember there was only one Shakespeare, and he was the only one that had a right to use that word in that sense . You'll never be a Shakespeare, there will never be such another - Nature exhausted herself in producing him.
Joseph Devlin
#13. I grew up with Shakespeare, and there are so many wonderful teachings in those plays. The stories are all so unique and timeless. There is just so much learning in that body of work, and that is something I will always go back to.
Juliet Rylance
#14. I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.
William Shakespeare
#15. Beware instinct
the lion will not touch the true prince.
Instinct is a great matter.
William Shakespeare
#18. We will meet; and there we may rehearse most
obscenely and courageously.
Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream. Spoken by Bottom, Act I Sc. 2
William Shakespeare
#19. Never Play With The Feelings Of Others, Because You May Win The Game But The Risk Is That You Will Surely Lose The Person For Life Time
William Shakespeare
#20. They are in the very wrath of love, and they will go together. Clubs cannot part them
William Shakespeare
#21. But I will be,
A bridegroom in my death, and run into't
As to a lover's bed.
William Shakespeare
#23. Call me what instrume you will,though you can fret me,yet you cannot play upon me.
William Shakespeare
#24. Now he'll outstare the lighting. To be furious
Is to be frightened out of fear, and in that mood
The dove will peck the estridge; and I see still
A diminution in our captain's brain
Restores his heart. When valor preys on reason,
It eats the sword it fights with.
William Shakespeare
#25. Suffer love! A good ephitet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.
William Shakespeare
#26. Myself will straight aboard, and to the state
This heavy act with heavy heart relate.
William Shakespeare
#28. The isle is full of noises,
Sounds, and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again.
William Shakespeare
#29. I've stopped acting, but I don't think I've finished using my voice. I could, and probably will, record the whole of Shakespeare's sonnets. They live at the side of my bed and are my constant companions.
Peter O'Toole
#30. Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights;
Four nights will quickly dream away the time.
William Shakespeare
#31. CASSIUS : "Will you dine with me tomorrow?"
CASCA : "Ay, if I be alive, and your mind hold, and your dinner worth the eating.
William Shakespeare
#32. WILL YOU YIELD AND THIS AVOID, OR GUILTY IN DEFENSE BE THUS DESTROY'D?
William Shakespeare
#33. KING HENRY VI:
Would I were dead, if God's good will were so;
For what is in this world but grief and woe?
William Shakespeare
#34. We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
Robert Wilensky
#35. I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die.
William Shakespeare
#38. And whatsomever else shall hap tonight, give it an understanding but no tongue, I will requit your love. So, fare your well. My lord, he hath importuned me with love, in honourable fashion.
William Shakespeare
#39. Yeah, but I don't know. There is something about the tragic stories of Shakespeare. It's as if we all know how it will end, but the adventure makes it worth it.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#40. And when he dies, cut him out in little stars, and the face of heaven will be so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no heed to the garish sun.
William Shakespeare
#42. You aren't in the ivy halls of your miserable literature pursuit now. Without wasting more time, will thou cometh to the pointeth? Dost thou wanteth us to stayeth or leaveth?
Pawan Mishra
#43. I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.
William Shakespeare
#45. Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir.
My daughter he hath wedded. I will die,
And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death's.
William Shakespeare
#46. Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.
William Shakespeare
#48. The end crowns all,
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it.
William Shakespeare
#50. You must write as if Dostoyevsky himself will be reading your novel, and Shakespeare will be acting it out.
Christina Westover
#52. One pain is lessened by another's anguish ... Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.
William Shakespeare
#54. I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.
William Shakespeare
#55. I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.
William Shakespeare
#56. See the minutes, how they run,
How many make the hour full complete;
How many hours bring about the day;
How many days will finish up the year;
How many years a mortal man may live.
William Shakespeare
#58. All is well ended if this suit be won. That you express content; which we will pay, With strife to please you, day exceeding day.
William Shakespeare
#60. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the vine destroy?
William Shakespeare
#61. 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.
William Shakespeare
#64. By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.
William Shakespeare
#65. To the end of this age. Oh, a thousand years
Will Hardly leach," he thought, "this dust of that fire.
Robinson Jeffers
#66. Tush!
Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate;
Talkers are no good doers: be assured
We come to use our hands and not our tongues.
William Shakespeare
#67. The devil shall have his bargain; for he was never yet a breaker of proverbs
he will give the devil his due.
William Shakespeare
#68. I'll follow this good man, and go with you;
And, having sworn truth, ever will be true.
William Shakespeare
#69. Make the doors upon a woman's wit,
and it will out at the casement;
shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole;
stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney.
William Shakespeare
#71. We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these poets bring us fire and light.
Harold Bloom
#72. New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.
William Shakespeare
#73. I cannot, nor I will not hold me still; My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.
William Shakespeare
#74. Indeed, sir, if your metaphor stink, I will stop up my nose, or against any man's metaphor.
William Shakespeare
#75. Of all the wonders that I have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
(Act II, Scene 2)
William Shakespeare
#77. Sirrah, your Father's dead: And what will you do now? How will you live?
Son: As birds do, mother.
L. Macd: What with worms and flies?
Son: With what I get, I mean; and so do they.
William Shakespeare
#78. When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets.
Thom Gunn
#79. Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink: if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy shee.
William Shakespeare
#80. Rashly,
And praised be rashness for it
let us know,
Our indiscretion sometime serves us well
When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us
There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will
William Shakespeare
#81. The implacable logic of retribution will prove as appalling as the crime itself, consisting of the soul's slow agonizing descent into a state of such loneliness and despair as to be finally indistinguishable from Hell.
William Shakespeare
#82. Faith, stay here this night; they will surely do us no harm; you saw they speak us fair, give us gold; methinks they are such a gentle nation that, but for the mountain of mad flesh that claims marriage of me, could find in my heart to stay here still and turn witch.
William Shakespeare
#83. Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that: and yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days; the more the pity that some honest neighbours will not make them friends.
William Shakespeare
#85. For I will raise her statue in pure gold;
That while Verona by that name is known,
There shall no figure at such rate be set
As that of true and faithful Juliet
William Shakespeare
#86. For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, expecting ever when some envious surge will in his brinish bowels swallow him.
William Shakespeare
#87. Host: What say you to young Master Fenton? he capers, he
dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he
speaks holiday, he smells April and May: he will
carry't, he will carry't; 'tis in his buttons; he
will carry't.
William Shakespeare
#88. BENEDICK: I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes;
William Shakespeare
#90. O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets!
Virginia Woolf
#91. Throw my heart
Against the flint and hardness of my fault:
Which, being dried with grief, will break to powder,
And finish all foul thoughts.
William Shakespeare
#92. Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs.
William Shakespeare
#93. If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
William Shakespeare
#94. I hope they will not come upon us now.
King Henry: We are in God's hand, brother, not in theirs.
William Shakespeare
#95. Give me mine angle, we'll to th' river: there, My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finned fishes. My bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws; and as I draw them up, I'll think them every one an Antony, And say, 'Ah, ha! are caught!'
William Shakespeare
#96. Let me play the lion too: I will roar that I will do any man's heart good to hear me. I will roar that I will make the duke say 'Let him roar again, let him roar again.
William Shakespeare
#98. Brush up your Shakespeare,
Start quoting him now,
Brush up your Shakespeare
And the women you will wow.
Cole Porter
#99. I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than
thou learn a prayer without book.
William Shakespeare
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