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 :)