Top 300 William Shakespeare Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.”

— William Shakespeare

252. “If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking and you beat love down.”

— William Shakespeare

253. “O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o’er my head As is a winged messenger of heaven.”

— William Shakespeare

254. “If I be waspish, best beware my sting.”

— William Shakespeare

255. “O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love!”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

259. “Thou art a very ragged Wart.”

— William Shakespeare

260. “The world must be peopled!”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

265. “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

266. “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

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

269. “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

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

— William Shakespeare

271. “There is a world elsewhere.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

273. “Let him smell his way to Dover!”

— William Shakespeare

274. “What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused.”

— William Shakespeare

275. “Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

278. “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

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

— 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. “More light and light, more dark and dark our woes.”

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

287. “What must be shall be.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

289. “In jest, there is truth.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

294. “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

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

298. “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

299. “He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.”

— William Shakespeare

300. “Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.”

— William Shakespeare