Top 300 William Shakespeare Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love!”

— William Shakespeare

252. “She lov’d me for the dangers I had pass’d, And I lov’d her that she did pity them.”

— William Shakespeare

253. “The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.”

— William Shakespeare

254. “Thou art a very ragged Wart.”

— William Shakespeare

255. “The world must be peopled!”

— William Shakespeare

256. “Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?”

— William Shakespeare

257. “For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us While it was ours.”

— William Shakespeare

258. “A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with light weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.”

— William Shakespeare

259. “You are a lover. Borrow Cupid’s wings and soar with them above a common bound.”

— William Shakespeare

260. “There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

262. “Tis within ourselves that we are thus or thus.”

— William Shakespeare

263. “I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?”

— William Shakespeare

264. “Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion.”

— William Shakespeare

265. “Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.”

— William Shakespeare

266. “So fair and foul a day i had not seen.”

— William Shakespeare

267. “O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.”

— William Shakespeare

268. “I wish you all the joy that you can wish.”

— William Shakespeare

269. “It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.”

— William Shakespeare

270. “There is a world elsewhere.”

— William Shakespeare

271. “Out of her favour, where I am in love.”

— William Shakespeare

272. “The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.”

— William Shakespeare

273. “One travels long distances not solely for large gatherings, but for something more intangible. I have always gone out on a limb for love. A dangerous, romantic, disappointing way to live.”

— William Shakespeare

274. “This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.”

— William Shakespeare

275. “It’s easy for someone to joke about scars if they’ve never been cut.”

— William Shakespeare

276. “To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.”

— William Shakespeare

277. “You are an alchemist; make gold of that.”

— William Shakespeare

278. “The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.”

— William Shakespeare

279. “And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mischiefs.”

— William Shakespeare

280. “Ready to go but never to return.”

— William Shakespeare

281. “A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.”

— William Shakespeare

282. “These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder.”

— William Shakespeare

283. “There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered.”

— William Shakespeare

284. “Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.”

— William Shakespeare

285. “Eternity was in our lips and eyes.”

— William Shakespeare

286. “This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.”

— William Shakespeare

287. “I have almost forgotten the taste of fears: The time has been, my senses would have cool’d to hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir as life were in’t: I have supt full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, cannot once start me.”

— William Shakespeare

288. “Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.”

— William Shakespeare

289. “Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.”

— William Shakespeare

290. “You have too much respect upon the world; They lose it that do buy it with much care.”

— William Shakespeare

291. “It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.”

— William Shakespeare

292. “Let every man be master of his time.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

294. “Swift as shadow, short as any dream.”

— William Shakespeare

295. “Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood.”

— William Shakespeare

296. “In jest, there is truth.”

— William Shakespeare

297. “I go, I go, look how I go, swifter than an arrow from a bow.”

— William Shakespeare

298. “Passion lends them power, time means to meet, tempering extremities with extremes sweet.”

— William Shakespeare

299. “No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.”

— William Shakespeare

300. “Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.”

— William Shakespeare