Top 300 William Shakespeare Quotes (2026 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. “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. “Out, damned spot! out, I say!”

— William Shakespeare

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

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

— William Shakespeare

267. “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

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

— 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. “There is a world elsewhere.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

277. “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

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

285. “In jest, there is truth.”

— William Shakespeare

286. “What must be shall be.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

293. “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

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

298. “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

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

— William Shakespeare

300. “In rage deaf as the sea, hasty as fire.”

— William Shakespeare