William Shakespeare Quotes

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

A plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another!

O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name, or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and I'll no longer be a Capulet.

We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.

Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!It seems she hangs upon the cheek of nightLike a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear,Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.So shows a snowy dove trooping...

I can call spirits from the vasty deep."Why so can I, or so can any man. But will they come when you do call for them?

Sweets to the sweet.

The better part of valour is discretion.

Thou art a very ragged Wart.

Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.

Good wombs have borne bad sons.-- (Miranda, I:2)

Jesters do often prove prophets.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat....

La culpa, no está en nuestras estrellas, sino en nosotros mismos, que consentimos en ser inferiores.

And what’s he then that says I play the villain?

Let your own discretion be your tutor suit the action to the word the word to the action.

Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it ple...

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.