Shakespeare Quotes

This is a blog on shakespeare quotes and sayings that we have collected from various plays and works of William Shakespeare. We also have compiled a page on Shakespeare Love quotes and some other quotes from his plays

Some of the most memorable from his plays, and other great works are:


Brevity is the soul of wit.
~From Hamlet.. Did you know that this was from hamlet?


O! she's warm.
If this be magic, let it be an art
Lawful as eating.
~From The Winter's Tale

To marry him is hopeless,
To be his whore is witless.
~From The Two Noble Kinsmen

My long sickness
Of health and living now begins to mend,
And nothing brings me all things.
~From Timon of Athens

Mine enemy's dog,
Though he had bit me, should have stood that night
Against my fire.
~From King Lear

You taught me language; and my profit on't
Is, I know how to curse: the red plague rid you,
For learning me your language.
~From The Tempest

The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.
~From A Midsummer Night's Dream

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,-
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.
~From "Much Ado About Nothing"

All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
~From Macbeth

Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while,
Till we can clear these ambiguities.
~From Romeo and Juliet

The language I have learned these forty years,
My native English, now I must forego:
And now my tongue's use is to me no more
Than an unstringed viol or a harp.
~From Richard II

But, alas, to make me
A fixed figure for the time of scorn
To point his slow unmoving finger at!
~From Othello

or in my youth I never did apply
Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood.
~ From As You Like It


vHe is dead and gone, lady,
He is dead and gone,
At his head a green-grass tuft;
At his heels a stone.
~From Hamlet

I think the king is but a man, as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me.
~From Henry V

Down, down to hell; and say I sent thee thither.
~Henry VI

A peace above all earthly dignities,
A still and quiet conscience.
~From Henry VIII

A plague of opinion! a man may wear it on both sides, like a leather jerkin.
~From Troilus and Cressida

Now, the melancholy god protect thee; and the tailor make thy doublet of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is a very opal.
~From the Twelfth Night

The jury, passing on the prisoner's life,
May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two
Guiltier than him they try.
~From Measure for Measure

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Make deeds ill done!
~From King John

That 's curdied by the frost from purest snow
And hangs on Dian's temple.
~From Coriolanus

Most of these Shakespeare quotes have been selected manual. Oh, BTW, This post says 2015, because I wanted this to be on the first page always.. At least till 2015 :)

Quotes from Hamlet

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks". H

"A little more than kin, and less than kind".

"The play 's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king".

"And it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man".

O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!

This is miching mallecho; it means mischief.

There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners.
Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung.

Every man has business and desire,
Such as it is.

Nay, an thou'lt mouth,
I'll rant as well as thou.

A truant disposition, good my lord.


In the dead vast and middle of the night.



Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?

And my imaginations are as foul
As Vulcan's stithy.


Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature.

"Brevity is the soul of wit".

We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart.

He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.

"This is the very ecstasy of love".

On fortune's cap we are not the very button.

Every man has business and desire,
Such as it is.

These are but wild and whirling words, my lord.

"Doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love".

"Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind".

"Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?"

"I will speak daggers to her, but use none".

"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions". - (Hamlet Quote Act IV, Scene V)

As you Like it Quotes

These are memorable from As You Like it:


I must have liberty
Withal, as large a charter as the wind,
To blow on whom I please.


The horn, the horn, the lusty horn
Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.

I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it

He uses his folly like a stalking-horse,
and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.

Well said: that was laid on with a trowel.

And He that doth the ravens feed,
Yea, providently caters for the sparrow,
Be comfort to my age!

O, wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! and yet again wonderful, and after that out of all hooping.

I earn that I eat, get that I wear,
owe no man hate,
envy no man's happiness,
glad of other men's good,
content with my harm.


Ay, now am I in Arden: the more fool I. When I was at home I was in a better place; but travellers must be content.


It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.

Can one desire too much of a good thing?

Shakespeare Love Quotes

The course of true love never did run smooth.
~William Shakespeare


Mistress, you know yourself, down on your knees, And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love
~As you Like it

I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster
~Much Ado About Nothing

Love goes by haps; Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps .
~ William Shakespeare

I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster
~ William Shakespeare

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind
~A Midsummer Night's Dream.. Here are more Shakespeare Love quotes from various of his plays including Romeo and Juliet..

O, spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou.
~ William Shakespeare

Speak low if you speak love
~ William Shakespeare

Is this the generation of love? Hot blood, hot thoughts and hot deeds? Why, they are vipers. Is love a generation of vipers?
~ William Shakespeare

Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books; but love from love, toward school with heavy looks.
~William Shakespeare

Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties
~ William Shakespeare

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.
~ William Shakespeare


A heart to love, and in that heart, Courage, to make's love known.
~ William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet Quotes

A plague o' both your houses!
They have made worms' meat of me!

"Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!/ For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night."

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

"For you and I are past our dancing days" .

"Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast"

"These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume.

"O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright"

"It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear" .


A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life.

Good night, good night. Parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.



"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet".

"Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast".

"Tempt not a desperate man"



See how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
O that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek!


O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright.
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear.


How fares my Juliet? that I ask again;
For nothing can be ill, if she be well.


This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath,
May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.

Macbeth Quotes

"Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill"

"I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none"

They doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe:
Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds,
Or memorize another Golgotha,
I cannot tell.


I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none.

Nothing in his life
Became him like the leaving it; he died
As one that had been studied in his death
To throw away the dearest thing he owed,
As ’t were a careless trifle.

I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff,
And damn'd be him that first cries, "Hold, enough!"

Nought's had, all's spent,
Where our desire is got without content;
'Tis safer to be that which we destroy
Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.

Became him like the leaving it; he died
As one that had been studied in his death,
To throw away the dearest thing he ow'd,
As 'twere a careless trifle.

Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?

"Ere the bat hath flown
His cloistered flight, ere, to black Hecate's summons
The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums
Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done
A deed of dreadful note."

His flight was madness: when our actions do not,
Our fears do make us traitors.

How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!

Show his eyes, and grieve his heart;
Come like shadows, so depart!

Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way.

Here are some more Macbeth Quotes from the Famous quotes.