Quotes by

William Shakespeare

I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people. – William Shakespeare

O comfort-killing night, image of hell, dim register and notary of shame, black stage for tragedies and murders fell, vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame! – William Shakespeare

I stalk about her door like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for wattage. – William Shakespeare

Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly. – William Shakespeare

Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers. – William Shakespeare

These earthly godfathers of Heavens lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are. – William Shakespeare

O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper. I would not be mad. – William Shakespeare

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. – William Shakespeare

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. – William Shakespeare

The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril. – William Shakespeare

Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after. – William Shakespeare

I am bewitched with the rogues company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, Ill be hanged. – William Shakespeare

Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? – William Shakespeare

Since I was man,
Such sheets of fire, such bursts of torrid thunder
Such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never
Remember to have heard. – William Shakespeare

For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. – William Shakespeare

Remembrance of things past. – William Shakespeare

Well teach you to drink deep ere you depart. – William Shakespeare

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth good us on to sin to loving virtue. – William Shakespeare

O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men! – William Shakespeare

If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work. – William Shakespeare