Top 300 William Shakespeare Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “Tempt not a desperate man.”

— William Shakespeare

302. “No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

304. “Swift as shadow, short as any dream.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

307. “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

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

310. “A light heart lives long.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

319. “Nice customs curtsy to great kings.”

— William Shakespeare

320. “Omittance is no quittance.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

327. “I have supped full with horrors.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

338. “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

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

343. “Nothing can come of nothing.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare