William Shakespeare
Shakespeare Quotes
We have collected the most famous Shakespeare quotes
(along with explanations)
Shakespeare quotes span the full bounds of the human experience as they explore different elements of life through comedy, tragedy, and romance. There are Shakespeare quotes about life and death, love and betrayal, each embedded in a famous play or poem.
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What's in a name? That which we call a rose
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Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
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The lady doth protest too much
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If music be the food of love, play on
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All the world's a stage
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To be, or not to be
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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio
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To sleep, perchance to dream
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O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
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Such stuff as dreams are made on
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Parting is such sweet sorrow
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The winter of our discontent
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What a piece of work is a man
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Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind
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Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
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Out, damned spot
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The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars
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Prodigious birth
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All that glisters is not gold
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Et tu, Brute?
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Cowards die many times before their deaths
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The play's the thing
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Frailty, thy name is woman
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What light through yonder window breaks?
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My words fly up, my thoughts remain below
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The course of true love never did run smooth
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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears
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Nothing can come of nothing
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Alas, poor Yorick
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We should be woo'd and were not made to woo
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The quality of mercy is not strained
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A plague on both your houses
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Blow, blow, thou winter wind
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Beware the ides of March
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Fortune's fool
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So wise so young, they say do never live long
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Method in the madness
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O, how this spring of love resembleth
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O happy dagger!
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We that are true lovers run into
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The world's mine oyster
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A lean and hungry look
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Off with his head!
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Hath not a Jew eyes?
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How now? A rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!
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Done to death by slanderous tongue
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Why then tonight let us assay our plot
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That art a votary to fond desire?
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Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps
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Be not afraid of greatness
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Lord, what fools these mortals be
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Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie
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I go, and it is done; the bell invites me
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I follow him to serve my turn upon him
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Is this a dagger which I see before me
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I am dying, Egypt, dying
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Come, let's away to prison; We two alone will sing
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Get thee to a nunnery
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Let every eye negotiate for itself
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One that loved not wisely but too well
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More matter with less art
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Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
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A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse!
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And thus I clothe my naked villany
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Eye of newt, and toe of frog
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All the infections that the sun sucks up
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Give me my robe, put on my crown
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Journeys end in lovers meeting
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When shall we three meet again
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This thing of darkness
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Asses are made to bear, and so are you
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Think you I am no stronger than my sex
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I am constant as the northern star
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O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!
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O, what men dare do!
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That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man
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Is whispering nothing?
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Here's ado to lock up honesty
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Now go we in content
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The noblest Roman of them all
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O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!
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The man that hath no music in himself
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When beggars die there are no comets seen
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The green-eyed monster
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O true apothecary!
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The most unkindest cut of all
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I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you
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How poor are they that have not patience!
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I come to wive it wealthily in Padua
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What, my dear Lady Disdain! Are you yet living?
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I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano
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What's gone and what's past help
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Was ever woman in this humour woo'd?
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When you do dance, I wish you
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'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed
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He hath given his empire
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There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow
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The patient must minister to himself
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The better part of valor is discretion
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They did make love to this employment
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