Famous Quotes By William Shakespeare.

 

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Famous Quotes By William Shakespeare.

1. "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" (1591–1595)  

A] Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.  

2. "Romeo and Juliet" (1594–1596)  

A] Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?  

B] What’s in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.  

C] What light through yonder window breaks.  

3. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1595–1596)  

A] Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.  

B] The course of true love never did run smooth.  

C] Lord, what fools these mortals be!  

4. "Richard II" (1595)  

A] This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle… This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.  

5. "The Merchant of Venice" (1596–1597)  

A] All that glisters is not gold.  

B] If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh?  

6. "Henry IV, Part 1" (1596–1597)  

A] The better part of valor is discretion.  

7. "Henry IV, Part 2" (1597–1598)  

A] Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.  

B] A man can die but once.  

11. "Much Ado About Nothing" (1598–1599)  

A] Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.  

8. "Julius Caesar" (1599)  

A] Beware the Ides of March.  

B] The fault, dear Brutus, lies not within the stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.  

C] Cry “havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war.  

D] Et tu, Brute?  

E] Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears: I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.  

F] Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.  

G] The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interrèd with their bones.  

H] But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.  

9. "As You Like It" (1599–1600)  

A] All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.  

10. "Hamlet" (1600–1601)  

A] To be, or not to be: that is the question.  

B] Frailty, thy name is woman.  

C] There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.  

D] To thine own self be true.  

E] Brevity is the soul of wit.  

F] There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.  

G] The lady doth protest too much, methinks.  

H] Get thee to a nunnery.  

I] We know what we are, but know not what we may be.  

J] Neither a borrower nor a lender be. For loan oft loses both itself and friend. 

K] Doubt that the stars are fire

Doubt that the sun doth move

Doubt truth to be a liar

But never doubt that I love you. 

[ Hamlet to Ophelia]

11. "Twelfth Night" (1601)  

A] If music be the food of love play on.  

B] Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.  

C] This is very midsummer madness.  

12. "Othello" (1603–1604)  

A] I am one who loved not wisely but too well.  

13. "King Lear" (1605–1606)  

A] Nothing will come of nothing.  

B] How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!  

C] I am a man more sinned against than sinning.  

14. "Macbeth" (1606)  

A] Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?  

B] Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage.  

15. "The Tempest" (1610–1611)  

A] Full fathom five thy father lies.  

B] We are such stuff as dreams are made on.  

C] Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.  

D] Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

16. Sonnets (1590s)  

A] Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?  

B] Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.  

17. The Merry Wives of Windsor  

A] I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. 

18. All's  Well that End’s Well”

A] No legacy is so rich as honesty.