William Shakespeare Quotes

‘Tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but ’tis enough,’twill serve. (Romeo and Juliet)

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. (Julius Caesar)

Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court. (As You Like It)

Who is here so vile that will not love his country? (Julius Caesar)

In the corrupted currents of this word offence’s gilded hand may solve by justice, and oft, tis seen the wicked prize itself buys out the law: but ’tis not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies in his true nature; And we ourselves compell’d Even to the teeth and forehead of our […]

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. (Hamlet)

O, that estates degrees and offices were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour were purchased by the merit of the wearer! (The Merchant of Venice)

Have you not heard it said full oft, a woman’s nay doth stand for naught? (The Passionate Pilgrim)

“Yea,” quoth he, “dost thou fall upon thy face? Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit. (Romeo and Juliet)

Your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious, pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange without heresy. (Love’s Labour’s Lost)