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Shakespeare Quotes - Famous, Love, William
Shakespeare is questionably the most influential playwright in English history. Following this information, here are a whole selection of different quotes from some of his greatest works, that are set to inspire you.
| Shakespeare Quote of the month: 'If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?' The Merchant of Venice |
Here are a few shakespeare quotes taken from some of his greatest works:
'Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and more knowledge of you.'
As You Like It
'To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous
fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them? To die, to sleep, to sleep: perchance to
dream, ay there's the rub, for in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
must give us pause.'
Hamlet
'Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.'
Hamlet
'Well, honour is the subject of my story. I cannot tell what you and other men think of this life: but, for my single self, i has
as lief not be as live to be in awe of such a thing as I myself.'
Julius Caesar
'You are not worth the dust which the rude wind blows in your face.'
King Lear
'From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: they sparkle still the right Promethean fire; they are the books, the arts, the
academes, that show, contain and nourish all the world.'
Love's Labour's Lost
'Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee: I have thee not, and yet I
see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight? or art thou a dagger of the mind, a false creation,
proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?'
Macbeth
'Take, O take those lips away, that so sweetly were forsworn; and those eyes, the break of day, lights that do mislead the
morn.'
Measure for Measure
'Look how the floor of heaven is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold.'
The Merchant of Venice
'Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.'
A Midsummer Nights Dream
'If we shadows have offended, think but this, and all is mended, that you have but slumbered here while these visions did
appear.'
A Midsummer Night's Dream
'Oh God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the market-place.'
Much Ado About Nothing
'I kissed thee ere I killed thee, no way but this, killing myself to die upon a kiss.'
Othello
'Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York.'
Richard III
'My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late!'
Romeo and Juliet
'See! how she leans her cheek upon her hand: O! that I were a glove upon that hand, that I might touch that cheek.'
Romeo and Juliet
'Be not afeard: the isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not.'
The Tempest
'Make me a willow cabin at you gate, and call upon my soul within the house; write loyal cantons of contemned love, and
sing them loud even in the dead of night; halloo your name to the reverberate hills, and make the babbling gossip of the air
cry out, 'Olivia!''
Twelfth Night
'Shall I compare thee to a sumer'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.'
Sonnet 18
'Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and more knowledge of you.'
As You Like It
'To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous
fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them? To die, to sleep, to sleep: perchance to
dream, ay there's the rub, for in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
must give us pause.'
Hamlet
'Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.'
Hamlet
'Well, honour is the subject of my story. I cannot tell what you and other men think of this life: but, for my single self, i has
as lief not be as live to be in awe of such a thing as I myself.'
Julius Caesar
'You are not worth the dust which the rude wind blows in your face.'
King Lear
'From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: they sparkle still the right Promethean fire; they are the books, the arts, the
academes, that show, contain and nourish all the world.'
Love's Labour's Lost
'Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee: I have thee not, and yet I
see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight? or art thou a dagger of the mind, a false creation,
proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?'
Macbeth
'Take, O take those lips away, that so sweetly were forsworn; and those eyes, the break of day, lights that do mislead the
morn.'
Measure for Measure
'Look how the floor of heaven is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold.'
The Merchant of Venice
'Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.'
A Midsummer Nights Dream
'If we shadows have offended, think but this, and all is mended, that you have but slumbered here while these visions did
appear.'
A Midsummer Night's Dream
'Oh God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the market-place.'
Much Ado About Nothing
'I kissed thee ere I killed thee, no way but this, killing myself to die upon a kiss.'
Othello
'Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York.'
Richard III
'My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late!'
Romeo and Juliet
'See! how she leans her cheek upon her hand: O! that I were a glove upon that hand, that I might touch that cheek.'
Romeo and Juliet
'Be not afeard: the isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not.'
The Tempest
'Make me a willow cabin at you gate, and call upon my soul within the house; write loyal cantons of contemned love, and
sing them loud even in the dead of night; halloo your name to the reverberate hills, and make the babbling gossip of the air
cry out, 'Olivia!''
Twelfth Night
'Shall I compare thee to a sumer'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.'
Sonnet 18
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