William Shakespeare Quotes

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)

He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal only sensible in the duller parts. (Love’s Labour’s Lost)

I wear not My dagger in my mouth. (Cymbeline)

He makes a July’s day short as December. (The Winter’s Tale)

Thou call’st me dog before thou hadst a cause, But since I am a dog, beware my fangs. (The Merchant of Venice)

O! for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention! (Henry V)

Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t. (Hamlet)

First Clown: Cannot you tell that? every fool can tell that: it was the very day that young Hamlet was born; he that is mad, and sent into England. Hamlet: Ay, marry, why was he sent into England? First Clown: Why, because he was mad: he shall recover his wits there; or, if he do […]

Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn? (Henry IV)

The silence often of pure innocence Persuades, when speaking fails. (The Winter’s Tale)