If music be the food of love, play on. (“Twelfth Night”)
William Shakespeare Quotes
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)
Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn? (Henry IV)
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 […]
The silence often of pure innocence Persuades, when speaking fails. (The Winter’s Tale)