Top 300 William Shakespeare Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne’er be younger.”

— William Shakespeare

152. “And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol’n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.”

— William Shakespeare

153. “The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music.”

— William Shakespeare

154. “All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.”

— William Shakespeare

155. “I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends.”

— William Shakespeare

156. “So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”

— William Shakespeare

157. “Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.”

— William Shakespeare

158. “Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.”

— William Shakespeare

159. “Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.”

— William Shakespeare

160. “Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this.”

— William Shakespeare

161. “Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour’d upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.”

— William Shakespeare

162. “Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong Hark! now I hear them, – Ding-dong, bell.”

— William Shakespeare

163. “My soul is in the sky.”

— William Shakespeare

164. “Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love’s mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.”

— William Shakespeare

165. “Conscience doth make cowards of us all.”

— William Shakespeare

166. “He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.”

— William Shakespeare

167. “My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.”

— William Shakespeare

168. “Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.”

— William Shakespeare

169. “I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.”

— William Shakespeare

170. “For she had eyes and chose me.”

— William Shakespeare

171. “But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.”

— William Shakespeare

172. “Romeo: I dreamt a dream tonight. Mercutio: And so did I. Romeo: Well, what was yours? Mercutio: That dreamers often lie. Romeo: In bed asleep while they do dream things true.”

— William Shakespeare

173. “Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.”

— William Shakespeare

174. “When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.”

— William Shakespeare

175. “No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here;.”

— William Shakespeare

176. “Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.”

— William Shakespeare

177. “They do not love, that do not show their love.”

— William Shakespeare

178. “He jests at scars that never felt a wound.”

— William Shakespeare

179. “False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”

— William Shakespeare

180. “I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.”

— William Shakespeare

181. “I am a man more sinned against than sinning.”

— William Shakespeare

182. “Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.”

— William Shakespeare

183. “Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.”

— William Shakespeare

184. “How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? Iago.”

— William Shakespeare

185. “Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment.”

— William Shakespeare

186. “Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.”

— William Shakespeare

187. “For man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.”

— William Shakespeare

188. “For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.”

— William Shakespeare

189. “To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.”

— William Shakespeare

190. “Now I will believe that there are unicorns...”

— William Shakespeare

191. “He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need: If thou sorrow, he will weep; If thou wake, he cannot sleep: Thus of every grief in heart He with thee does bear a part. These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe.”

— William Shakespeare

192. “My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.”

— William Shakespeare

193. “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey’d monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

195. “Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.”

— William Shakespeare

196. “My only love sprung from my only hate.”

— William Shakespeare

197. “When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.”

— William Shakespeare

198. “When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.”

— William Shakespeare

199. “O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, 1710. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?”

— William Shakespeare

200. “Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo’s hours? Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.”

— William Shakespeare