William Shakespeare Quotes

And Happy always was it for that son – Whose father for his hoarding went to hell. (Henry VI)

I hate ingratitude more in a man Than lying, vainness, babbling drunkenness, Or any taint of vice whose strong corruption Inhabits our frail blood. (Twelfth Night)

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is To have a thankless child! (King Lear)

O God! I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. (Hamlet)

Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to’t, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight. (King Lear)

When daisies pied, and Violets blew, And Cuckow-buds of yellow hew: And Ladie-smockes all sliveer white, Do paint the Medowes with delight. The Cuckow then on everie tree, Mockes married men, for thus sings he, Cuckow, Cuckow, Cockow, O word of feare, Unpleasing to a married eare. (Love’s Labour’s Lost)

The nature of bad news infects the teller. (Antony and Cleopatra)

This royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, This blessed plot, this earth, […]

Experience is by industry achieved, and perfected by the swift course of time. (The Two Gentlemen of Verona)

l do desire we be better strangers. (As You Like It)