Shakespeare Quotes

For thy sweet love remembr'd such wealth bringsThat then, I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately.

William Shakespeare

You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by incrustations, debased by impurities, and mingled with a mass of meaner minerales.

Samuel Johnson

[Thine] face is not worth sunburning.

William Shakespeare

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

Victor Hugo

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines, And too often is his gold complexion dimm'd: And every fair from fair sometimes declines, By chance or natures changing course untrimm'd; By thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

William Shakespeare

If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?

Virginia Woolf

Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find.

William Shakespeare

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.

William Shakespeare

Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool?Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.

William Shakespeare

Sweets to the sweet.

William Shakespeare

Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out at every joint and motive of her body.

William Shakespeare

Nothingever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have a malady in the less attractive forms.

Charles Dickens

The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.

Virginia Woolf

My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.

William Shakespeare

All's well if all ends well.

William Shakespeare

Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream

William Shakespeare

More grief to hide than hate to utter love. Polonius, Hamlet.

William Shakespeare

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

William Shakespeare