Quotes About Shakespeare

His life was gentle, and the elementsSo mix'd in him that Nature might stand upAnd say to all the world, "This was a man!"

There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark,But he's an arrant knave.

Owen 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?

'Zounds! I was never so bethump'd with wordsSince I first call'd my brother's father dad.

I had rather be a kitten and cry mew,Than one of these same meter ballad-mongers.

But if it be a sin to covet honor,I am the most offending soul alive.

For I am proverb'd with a grandsire phrase.

For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

Yesterday the bird of night did sit,Even at noonday, upon the marketplace,Hooting and shrieking.

From the east to western Ind,No jewel is like Rosalind.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

He hath indeed better bettered expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how.

This is very midsummer madness.

Hence, horrible shadow!Unreal mockery, hence!

By this leek, I will most horribly revenge. I eat and eat, I swear.

Pillicock sat on Pillicock-hill:Halloo, halloo, loo, loo!

Falstaff sweats to deathAnd lards the lean earth as he walks along.

He is come to openThe purple testament of bleeding war.

But in the gross and scope of my opinion,This bodes some strange eruption to our state.

An honorable murderer, if you will;For nought I did in hate, but all in honor.

Time doth transfix the flourish set on youthAnd delves the parallels in beauty's brow.

I lov'd Ophelia: forty thousand brothersCould not, with all their quantity of love,Make up my sum.

Has this fellow no feeling of his business, that he sings at grave-making?

The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she.