Quotes About Shakespeare

This earth, that bears thee dead,Bears not alive so stout a gentleman.

O! that way madness lies; let me shun that.

Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer? Where be his quiddities now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks?

O world! world! world! thus is the poor agent despised.

As happy prologues to the swelling actOf the imperial theme.

To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feastFits a dull fighter and a keen guest.

I'll speak in a monstrous little voice.

Past cure I am, now Reason is past care,And frantic-mad with evermore unrest.

I have a daughter;Would any of the stock of BarabbasHad been her husband rather than a Christian!

William Shakespeare

Benedick the married man.

Thou sure and firm-set earth,Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fearThe very stones prate of my whereabout.

The fringed curtains of thine eye advance.

Like a strutting player, whose conceitLies in his hamstring, and doth think it richTo hear the wooden dialogue and sound'Twixt his stretch'd footing and the scaffoldage.

And if the boy have not a woman's giftTo rain a shower of commanded tears,An onion will do well for such a shift.

William Shakespeare

Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord. Hamlet: As woman's love.

O heaven! that such companions thou'dst unfold,And put in every honest hand a whipTo lash the rascals naked through the world.

She has brown hair, and speaks small like a woman.

The devil a puritan that he is, or anything constantly but a time-pleaser; an affectioned ass.

[He] curses all Eve's daughters, of what complexion soever.

William Shakespeare

First Guard:… Charmian, is this well done?Charmian: It is well done, and fitting for a princessDescended of so many royal kings.

Mark now, how a plain tale shall put you down.