Top 380 William Shakespeare Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip.”

— William Shakespeare

352. “A good and virtuous nature may recoil in an imperial charge.”

— William Shakespeare

353. “The villany you teach me I shall execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.”

— William Shakespeare

354. “I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways.”

— William Shakespeare

355. “I kiss the wall’s hole and not your lips at all.”

— William Shakespeare

356. “I am the man – if it be so, as ’tis, poor lady, she were better love a dream.”

— William Shakespeare

357. “A heavy summons lies like lead upon me, and yet I would not sleep. Merciful powers, restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature gives way to in repose.”

— William Shakespeare

358. “Before I know myself, seek not to know me.”

— William Shakespeare

359. “I prithee give me leave to curse awhile.”

— William Shakespeare

360. “A man’s life is like a story, told badly by a fool, whose shouts and strong words make it seem important. But it means nothing.”

— William Shakespeare

361. “Pleasure and revenge have ears more deaf than adders to the voice of any true decision.”

— William Shakespeare

362. “And yet for aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. It is no mean happiness, therefore, to be seated in the mean. Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.”

— William Shakespeare

363. “A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.”

— William Shakespeare

364. “Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile.”

— William Shakespeare

365. “Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times, and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!”

— William Shakespeare

366. “Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.”

— William Shakespeare

367. “Speak, hands for me!”

— William Shakespeare

368. “Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn The power of man, for none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth.”

— William Shakespeare

369. “Where we are, There’s daggers in men’s smiles: the near in blood, The nearer bloody.”

— William Shakespeare

370. “Lions make leopards tame.”

— William Shakespeare

371. “I would Your Highness would depart the field, the Queen hath best success when you are absent.”

— William Shakespeare

372. “Lesser than Macbeth and greater. Not so happy, yet much happier. Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.”

— William Shakespeare

373. “A good moral, my lord: it is not enough to speak, but to speak true.”

— William Shakespeare

374. “I love thee. By my life, I do.”

— William Shakespeare

375. “The bright day is done, and we are for the dark.”

— William Shakespeare

376. “Never shake thy gory locks at me.”

— William Shakespeare

377. “We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.”

— William Shakespeare

378. “Let Antony and Caesar fall together.”

— William Shakespeare

379. “An I had but one penny in the world, thou shouldst have it to buy gingerbread.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

381. “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

382. “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

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

— William Shakespeare