Shakespeare Quotes

Speak low if you speak love

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow.

It's not enough to speak, but to speak true.

If I lose mine honour, I lose myself.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then to me.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

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?

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.

To be, or not to be: that is the question.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods;
They kill us for their sport.

Then to the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer's Night's Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.

If music is the food of love, play on.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Love is a smoke made with the fumes of sighs;
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;
Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears;
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.

Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Thou art not so unkind,
As man's ingratitude.

At Christmas, I no more desire a rose

Many a morning hath he there been seen,
With tears augmenting the fresh morning's dew,
Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs;
But all so soon as the all-cheering sun
Should in the farthest east begin to draw
The shady curtains from Aurora's bed,
Away from light steals home my heavy son
And private in his chamber pens himself,
Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out,
And makes himself an artificial night,

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?

My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.