Top 300 William Shakespeare Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “And what’s he then that says I play the villain?”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

305. “Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.”

— William Shakespeare

306. “Do not spread the compost on the weeds.”

— William Shakespeare

307. “What must be shall be.”

— William Shakespeare

308. “Pause awhile, And let my counsel sway you.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

310. “Make not your thoughts your prisons.”

— William Shakespeare

311. “Tempt not a desperate man.”

— William Shakespeare

312. “Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.”

— William Shakespeare

313. “Suffer love! A good ephitet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.”

— William Shakespeare

314. “Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

317. “The poorest service is repaid with thanks.”

— William Shakespeare

318. “And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.”

— William Shakespeare

319. “More of your conversation would infect my brain.”

— William Shakespeare

320. “His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

323. “Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust.”

— William Shakespeare

324. “Oh, God! I have an ill-divining soul!”

— William Shakespeare

325. “And too soon Marred are those so early Made.”

— William Shakespeare

326. “Nice customs curtsy to great kings.”

— William Shakespeare

327. “I have supped full with horrors.”

— William Shakespeare

328. “A light heart lives long.”

— William Shakespeare

329. “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

330. “Nothing in his life became him like leaving it.”

— William Shakespeare

331. “If your mind dislike anything obey it.”

— William Shakespeare

332. “Omittance is no quittance.”

— William Shakespeare

333. “I can hardly forbear hurling things at him.”

— William Shakespeare

334. “Nothing can come of nothing.”

— William Shakespeare

335. “So are you to my thoughts as food to life, or as sweet seasoned showers are to the ground.”

— William Shakespeare

336. “My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.”

— William Shakespeare

337. “The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason.”

— William Shakespeare

338. “For who so firm that cannot be seduced?”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

340. “Plain and not honest is too harsh a style.”

— William Shakespeare

341. “Where souls do couch on flowers we’ll hand in hand...”

— William Shakespeare

342. “One sees more devils than vast hell can hold.”

— William Shakespeare

343. “You pay a great deal too dear for what’s given freely.”

— William Shakespeare

344. “Look to her, Moor, if thou has eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee.”

— William Shakespeare