Quotes About Shakespeare

No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.

Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night; For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night Whiter than new snow upon a raven's back.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

To fear the worst oft cures the worse.

Ophelia:'Tis brief, my lord.Hamlet: As woman's love.

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

But for your words, they rob the Hybla bees,And leave them honeyless.

Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;But will they come when you do call for them?

In the posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude call the afternoon.

But now I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd, bound inTo saucy doubts and fears.

One Pinch, a hungry lean-fac'd villain,A mere anatomy, a mountebank,A threadbare juggler, and a fortune-teller,A needy, hollow-ey'd, sharp-looking wretch,A living-dead man.

Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones!

O infinite virtue! com'st thou smiling fromThe world's great snare uncaught?

Unthread the rude eye of rebellion,And welcome home again discarded faith.

It is a heretic that makes the fire,Not she which burns in 't.

Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens.

William Shakespeare

Ay, now am I in Arden; the more fool I: when I was at home, I was in a better place: but travelers must be content.

Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man?

Malcolm: Dispute it like a man.Macduff: I shall do so;But I must also feel it as a man:I cannot but remember such things were,That were most precious to me.

For this relief much thanks; 'tis bitter cold,And I am sick at heart.

A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't.

Mincing poetry:'Tis like the forc'd gait of a shuffling nag.

A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap,And munch'd, and munch'd, and munch'd: "Give me," quoth I:"Aroint thee, witch!" the rump-fed ronyon cries.