Top 380 William Shakespeare Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking and you beat love down.”

— William Shakespeare

252. “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

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

— William Shakespeare

254. “Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.”

— William Shakespeare

255. “Out, damned spot! out, I say!”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

257. “The world must be peopled!”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

260. “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

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

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

268. “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

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. “Make not your thoughts your prisons.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

272. “There is a world elsewhere.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

275. “There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things.”

— 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. “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

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

284. “In jest, there is truth.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

288. “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

289. “Ten kisses short as one, one long as twenty.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

293. “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

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

— William Shakespeare

295. “Tempt not a desperate man.”

— William Shakespeare

296. “And what’s he then that says I play the villain?”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

299. “O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !”

— William Shakespeare

300. “A light heart lives long.”

— William Shakespeare