Top 380 William Shakespeare Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “Pause awhile, And let my counsel sway you.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

303. “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

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

— William Shakespeare

305. “A light heart lives long.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

314. “Nice customs curtsy to great kings.”

— William Shakespeare

315. “Omittance is no quittance.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

322. “I have supped full with horrors.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

330. “What must be shall be.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

335. “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

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

342. “Nothing can come of nothing.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

345. “Let them obey that knows not how to rule.”

— William Shakespeare

346. “He sits high in all the people’s hearts, And that which would appear offense in us, His countenance, like richest alchemy, Will change to virtue and to worthiness.”

— William Shakespeare

347. “If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me and breaths that I defied not: and, I am sure, as many as have good beards or good faces or sweet breaths will, for my kind offer, when I make curtsy, bid me farewell.”

— William Shakespeare

348. “O horror! Horror! Horror! Tongue nor heart Cannot conceive nor name thee!”

— William Shakespeare

349. “I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.”

— William Shakespeare

350. “I will not charm my tongue: I am bound to speak.”

— William Shakespeare