William Shakespeare Quotes

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. (The Merry Wives of Windsor)

Can sick men play so nicely with their names? (Richard II)

Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony… Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; There’s not the smallest orb which thou behold’st But in his motion like an angel sings, […]

When griping grief the heart doth wound and doleful dumps the mind oppress then music with the silver sound with speedy help, doth lend redress. (“Romeo and Juliet”)

If music be the food of love, play on. (“Twelfth Night”)

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils, The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted: – Mark the music. (The Merchant of Venice)

I perceive you delight not in music… Not a whit, when it jars so. (The Two Gentlemen of Verona)

This music mads me; let it sound no more; For though it have holp madmen to their wits, In me it seems it will make wise men mad. Yet blessing on his heart that gives it me! For ’tis a sign of love; and love to Richard Is a strange brooch in this all-hating world. […]

How sour sweet music is When time is broke and no proportions kept! So it is in the music of men’s lives. (Richard II)

Is it not strange that sheeps’ guts should hale souls out of men’s bodies? (Much Ado About Nothing)