William Shakespeare Quotes

To bed, to bed! there’s knocking at the gate: come, come, come, come, give me your hand. What’s done cannot be undone. – To bed, to bed, to bed! (Macbeth)

I give unto my wife my second best bed. (his will)

I will beat thee into handsomeness. (Troilus and Cressida)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade The eyes of men without an orator. (The Rape of Lucrece)

Thy never-conquer’d fort: the fault is thine, For those thine eyes betray thee unto mine. | Thus I forestall thee, if thou mean to chide: Thy beauty hath ensnared thee to this night, | Where thou with patience must my will abide; My will that marks thee for my earth’s delight. (The Rape of Lucrece)

Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. (Romeo and Juliet)

Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight, For I never saw true beauty till this night. (Romeo and Juliet)

My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. (Henry V)

Could I come near your beauty with my nails I’d set my ten commandments in your face. (Henry VI)

My beauty, though but mean, Needs not the painted flourish of your praise: Beauty is not bought by judgement of the eye. (Love’s Labour’s Lost)