115+ Best WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Quotes From CORIOLANUS!

“To be, or not to be? That is the question!”

William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor. Shakespeare was born in the 1500’s, but his plays are just as popular today as they were when he was alive!

Some of Shakespeare’s most famous plays include:

Romeo And Juliet
Hamlet
The Tempest
Twelfth Night
Macbeth

…And many more.

Shakespeare was one of the best English writers of all time, and it’s easy to see why. His plays feature timeless quotes about life, love, relationships, and more.

Whether you’re interested in deep philosophical quotes about life, funny Shakespeare quotes, or hot and heavy Shakespeare quotes about love and romance, we’ve got you covered!

Without further ado, here are the best William Shakespeare quotes from Coriolanus!

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Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Happiness

“More of your conversation would infect my brain.” -William Shakespeare.
“Let it be virtuous to be obstinate.” -William Shakespeare.
“Let me have war, say I: it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it’s spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter of more bastard children than war’s a destroyer of men.” -William Shakespeare.
“Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr’d the moon with splinters: here I clip The anvil of my sword, and do contest As hotly and as nobly with thy love As ever in ambitious strength I did Contend against thy valour. Know thou first, I loved the maid I married; never man Sigh’d truer breath; but that I see thee here, Thou noble thing! more dances my rapt heart Than when I first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold.” -William Shakespeare.
“Why did you wish me milder? would you have me False to my nature? Rather say I play The man I am.” -William Shakespeare.
“His nature is too noble for the world, He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for’s power to thunder. His heart’s his mouth: What his breast forges, that his tongue must vent; And, being angry, does forget that ever He heard the name of Death.” -William Shakespeare.
“Then if thou hast.” -William Shakespeare.
A heart of wreak in thee, that wilt revenge Thine own particular wrongs and stop those maims Of shame seen through thy country, speed thee straight, And make my misery serve thy turn: so use it That my revengeful services may prove As benefits to thee, for I will fight Against my canker’d country with the spleen Of all the under fiends.” -William Shakespeare.
“Anger’s my meat; I sup upon myself, And so shall starve with feeding.” -William Shakespeare.
“What is the city but the people?” -William Shakespeare.
“So our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time: And power, unto itself most commendable, Hath not a tomb so evident as a chair To extol what it hath done. One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail; Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail.” -William Shakespeare.
“There is a world elsewhere.” -William Shakespeare.
“They lie deadly that tell you have good faces.” -William Shakespeare.
“You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate As reek o’ the rotten fens, whose loves I prize As the dead carcasses of unburied men That do corrupt my air, I banish you; And here remain with your uncertainty!” -William Shakespeare.
“These are the ushers of Martius: before him He carries noise, and behind him he leaves tears. Death, that dark spirit, in’s nervy arm doth lie, Which being advanc’d, declines, and then men die.” -William Shakespeare.
“If e’er again I meet him beard to beard, he’s mine or I am his.” -William Shakespeare.
“I find the ass in compound with the major part of your syllables.” -William Shakespeare.
“And Sir, it is no little thing to make mine eyes to sweat compassion.” -William Shakespeare.
“For the gods know I speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge.” -William Shakespeare.
“I’ll never be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand as if a man were author to himself and knew no other kin.” -William Shakespeare.
“You were used to say extremity was the trier of spirits; that common chances common men could bear; that when the sea was calm all boats alike showed mastership in floating.” -William Shakespeare.
“Now put your shields before your hearts and fight / With hearts more proof than shields. Advance, my fellows!” -William Shakespeare.
“That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioles.” -William Shakespeare.
“I cannot say your worships have delivered the matter well when I find the ass in compound with the major part of your syllables […] our very priests must become mockers if they shall encounter such ridiculous subjects as you are. When you speak best unto the purpose, it is not worth the wagging of your beards, and your beards deserve not so honorable a grave as to stuff a botcher’s cushion or to be entombed in an ass’s packsaddle […] more of your conversation would infect my brain, being the herdsmen of the beastly plebeians. I will be bold to take my leave with you.” -William Shakespeare.
“I think he’ll be to Rome as is the osprey to the fish, who takes it by sovereignty of nature.” -William Shakespeare.
“I will go wash; And when my face is fair, you shall perceive. Whether I blush or no: howbeit, I thank you.” -William Shakespeare.
“I talk of you: Why did you wish me milder? would you have me False to my nature? Rather say I play The man I am.” -William Shakespeare.
“Care for us! True, indeed! They ne’er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and there’s all the love they bear us.” -William Shakespeare.

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Happiness

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.” -William Shakespeare.
“I wish you all the joy that you can wish.” -William Shakespeare.
“My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.” -William Shakespeare.
“Bring me a constant woman to her husband, One that ne’er dream’d a joy beyond his pleasure, And to that woman, when she has done most, Yet will I add an honour-a great patience.” -William Shakespeare.
“There’s nothing in this world can make me joy.” -William Shakespeare.
“For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.” -William Shakespeare.
“And now what rests but that we spend the time; With stately triumphs, mirthful comic shows, Such as befits the pleasure of the court; Sound drums and trumpets farewell sour annoy; For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.” -William Shakespeare.
“How sweet is love itself possess’d, When but love’s shadows are so rich in joy!” -William Shakespeare.
“What win I, if I gain the thing I seek A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute’s mirth to wail a week Or sells eternity to ‘get a toy For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy.” -William Shakespeare.
“Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament; Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident.” -William Shakespeare.
“As little joy, my lord, as you suppose You should enjoy were you this country’s king, As little joy you may suppose in me That I enjoy, being the Queen thereof.” -William Shakespeare.
“I wish you all the joy you can wish.” -William Shakespeare.
“Joy absent, grief is present for that time.” -William Shakespeare.
“Think with thyself How more unfortunate than all living women Are we come hither; since that thy sight, which should Make our eyes flow with joy, hearts dance with comforts, Constrains them weep and shake with fear and sorrow, Making the mother, wife, and child, to see The son, the husband, and the father, tearing His country’s bowels out.” -William Shakespeare.
“Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.” -William Shakespeare.
“All days of glory, joy, and happiness.” -William Shakespeare.
“Be cheerful; wipe thine eyes.” -William Shakespeare.
“A goodly portly man, i’ faith, and a corpulent; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by’r Lady, inclining to threescore; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff.” -William Shakespeare.
“Right joyous are we to behold your face, Most worthy brother England; fairly met!” -William Shakespeare.
“My joy is death-Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish’d this world’s eternity.” -William Shakespeare.
“There’s little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.” -William Shakespeare.
“Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.” -William Shakespeare.
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” -William Shakespeare.
“Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.” -William Shakespeare.
“O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!” -William Shakespeare.
“Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.” -William Shakespeare.
“How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?” -William Shakespeare.
“All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity.” -William Shakespeare.
“But here’s the joy my friend and I are one… Then she loves but me alone.” -William Shakespeare.
“My life, my joy, my food, my ail the world!” -William Shakespeare.
“How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping.” -William Shakespeare.
“This told, I joy; but then no longer glad, I send them back again and straight grow sad.” -William Shakespeare.

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Friendship

“The band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity.” -William Shakespeare.
“Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!” -William Shakespeare.
“A friend should bear his friend’s infirmities.” -William Shakespeare.
“I desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends.” -William Shakespeare.
“Thou common friend, that’s without faith or love- / For such is a friend now; treacherous man, / Thou hast beguil’d my hopes; nought but mine eye Could have persuaded me.” -William Shakespeare.
“Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.” -William Shakespeare.
“There is a devil / haunts thee in the likeness of an old fat man; a tun of man is thy companion.” -William Shakespeare.
“The great man down, you mark his favourite flies, / The poor advanc’d makes friends of enemies; / And hitherto doth love on fortune tend, / For who not needs shall never lack a friend, / And who in want a hollow friend doth try, Directly seasons him his enemy.” -William Shakespeare.
“But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all losses are restored and sorrows end.” -William Shakespeare.
“I count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul remembering my good friends.” -William Shakespeare.
“A noble shalt thou have, and present pay; / And liquor likewise will I give to thee, / And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood.” -William Shakespeare.
“Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find.” -William Shakespeare.
“If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not / As to thy friends; for when did friendship take / A breed for barren metal of his friend?” -William Shakespeare.
“Thy friendship makes us fresh.” -William Shakespeare.
“Warwick, these words have turn’d my hate to love; / And I forgive and quite forget old faults, And joy that thou becom’st King Henry’s friend.” -William Shakespeare.
“All friends shall taste / The wages of their virtue, and all foes / The cup of their deservings.” -William Shakespeare.
“Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.” -William Shakespeare.
“That which I would discover / The law of friendship bids me to conceal.” -William Shakespeare.
“Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, / Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel.” -William Shakespeare.
“Keep thy friend, under thy own life’s key.” -William Shakespeare.
“But where there is true friendship, there needs none.” -William Shakespeare.
“My way of life / Is fall’n into the sear, the yellow leaf, / And that which should accompany old age, / As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny and dare not.” -William Shakespeare.
“Friendship is constant in all other things / Save in the office and affairs of love.” -William Shakespeare.
“My good friends, I’ll leave you till night.” -William Shakespeare.
Most friendship is faining, most loving mere folly: / Then, heigh-ho, the holly. This life is most jolly.” -William Shakespeare.
“The presence of a king engenders love / Amongst his subjects and his loyal friends, / As it disanimates his enemies.” -William Shakespeare.
“To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, / Recanting goodness, sorry ere ’tis shown; / But where there is true friendship, there needs none.” -William Shakespeare.

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Life

“Get thee to a nunnery.” -William Shakespeare.
“As merry as the day is long.” -William Shakespeare.
“By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap to pluck bright honor from the pale-faced moon, or dive into the bottom of the deep, where fathom-line could never touch the ground, and pluck up drowned honor by the locks.” -William Shakespeare.
“I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.” -William Shakespeare.
“There where my fortune lives, there my life dies.” -William Shakespeare.
“Thy life’s a miracle.” -William Shakespeare.
“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.” -William Shakespeare.
“To be, or not to be—that is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep.” -William Shakespeare.
“Full fathom five thy father lies, of his bones are coral made. Those are pearls that were his eyes. Nothing of him that doth fade, but doth suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange.” -William Shakespeare.
“If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?” -William Shakespeare.
“Life’s but a walking shadow, A poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” -William Shakespeare.
“Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.” -William Shakespeare.
“It is silliness to live when to live is torment; and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.” -William Shakespeare.
“To do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes’ palaces.” -William Shakespeare.
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears: I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.” -William Shakespeare.
“O gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial’s point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour.” -William Shakespeare.
“Let life be short: else shame will be too long.” -William Shakespeare.
The sands are number’d that make up my life; Here must I stay, and here my life must end.” -William Shakespeare.
“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!” -William Shakespeare.
“Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” -William Shakespeare.
“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.” -William Shakespeare.
“O excellent! I love long life better than figs.” -William Shakespeare.
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
“Now is the winter of our discontent.” -William Shakespeare.
“Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?” -William Shakespeare.
“Beware the Ides of March.” -William Shakespeare.

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Time

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.” -William Shakespeare.
“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.” -William Shakespeare.
“What is past is prologue.” -William Shakespeare.
“Time … thou ceaseless lackey to eternity.” -William Shakespeare.
“Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch’d, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.” -William Shakespeare.
“There’s a time for all things.” -William Shakespeare.
“Short time seems long in sorrow’s sharp sustaining.” -William Shakespeare.
“The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.” -William Shakespeare.
“Time be thine, And thy best graces spend it at thy will.” -William Shakespeare.
“And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, “It is ten o’clock: Thus we may see,” quoth he, “how the world wags.”” -William Shakespeare.
“Minutes, hours, days, months, and years, Pass’d over to the end they were created, Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. Ah, what a life were this!” -William Shakespeare.
“O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t’untie.” -William Shakespeare.
“Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.” -William Shakespeare.
“Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!” -William Shakespeare.
“Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow; Thou canst help time to furrow me with age, But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage.” -William Shakespeare.
“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to dayWhat’s past and what’s to come is strew’d with husks And formless ruin of oblivion.” -William Shakespeare.
“No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change.” -William Shakespeare.
“What e’er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time.” -William Shakespeare.
“If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.” -William Shakespeare.
“The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.” -William Shakespeare.
“Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.” -William Shakespeare.
“My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.” -William Shakespeare.
“Beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.” -William Shakespeare.
“The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it.” -William Shakespeare.
“The time is out of joint.” -William Shakespeare.
“Much rain wears the marble.” -William Shakespeare.
“Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then ’tis time to do’t. Hell is murky!” -William Shakespeare.
“Time’s glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.” -William Shakespeare.
“Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber’d oak.” -William Shakespeare.
“Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.” -William Shakespeare.
“In time we hate that which we often fear.” -William Shakespeare.
“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.” -William Shakespeare.
“Let every man be master of his time.” -William Shakespeare.
“Things without all remedy should be without regard: what’s done is done.” -William Shakespeare.
“Time’s the king of men; he’s both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.” -William Shakespeare.
“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” -William Shakespeare.

Best William Shakespeare Quotes From Romeo And Juliet

“Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight, For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” -William Shakespeare.
“Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes; Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.” -William Shakespeare.
“Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.” -William Shakespeare.
“What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word. As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.” -William Shakespeare.
“A plague o’ both your houses!” -William Shakespeare.
“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents’ strife.”
“What must be shall be.” -William Shakespeare.
“O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death!” -William Shakespeare.
“I must be gone and live, or stay and die.” -William Shakespeare.
“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” -William Shakespeare.
“I defy you, stars[.]” -William Shakespeare.
“Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.” -William Shakespeare.
“O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars.” -William Shakespeare.
From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death!” -William Shakespeare.
“Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this.” -William Shakespeare.
“You are a lover. Borrow Cupid’s wings And soar with them above a common bound.” -William Shakespeare.
“Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.” -William Shakespeare.
“If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.” -William Shakespeare.
“Parting is such sweet sorrow.” -William Shakespeare.
“With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls, For stony limits cannot hold love out.”
“See how she leans her cheek upon her hand, O that I were a glove upon that hand that I might touch that cheek!” -William Shakespeare.
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.” -William Shakespeare.
“Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes; Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.” -William Shakespeare.
“Under love’s heavy burden do I sink.” -William Shakespeare.
“Don’t waste your love on somebody, who doesn’t value it.” -William Shakespeare.
“Love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.” -William Shakespeare.
“My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.” -William Shakespeare.
“Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.” -William Shakespeare.
“All are punished.” -William Shakespeare.

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Love

“Parting is such sweet sorrow.” -William Shakespeare.
“With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls, For stony limits cannot hold love out.” -William Shakespeare.
“See how she leans her cheek upon her hand, O that I were a glove upon that hand that I might touch that cheek!” -William Shakespeare.
“You are a lover. Borrow Cupid’s wings And soar with them above a common bound.” -William Shakespeare.
“Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.” -William Shakespeare.
“If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.” -William Shakespeare.
“The course of true love never did run smooth.” -William Shakespeare.
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” -William Shakespeare.
“Love can transpose to form and dignity.” -William Shakespeare.
“I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.” -William Shakespeare.
“Speak low if you speak love.” -William Shakespeare.
“But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit.” -William Shakespeare.
“Lovers ever run before the clock.” -William Shakespeare.
“One half of me is yours, the other half yours—Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours.” -William Shakespeare.
“Nor did I wonder at the lily’s white, Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose; They were but sweet, but figures of delight Drawn after you…” -William Shakespeare.
“Oh, love’s best habit is in seeming trust, And age in love loves not to have years told.”
“O! how thy worth with manners may I sing, When thou art all the better part of me?”
“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.” -William Shakespeare.
“And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.” -William Shakespeare.
“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?” -William Shakespeare.
“For where thou art, there is the world itself, and where though art not, desolation.” -William Shakespeare.
“The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.” -William Shakespeare.
“She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them.” -William Shakespeare.
“They are in the very wrath of love, and they will go together. Clubs cannot part them.” -William Shakespeare.
“Love hath made thee a tame snake.” -William Shakespeare.
“Excellent wetch! Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee, and when I love thee not, chaos is come again.” -William Shakespeare.
“For ever and a day.” -William Shakespeare.
“But are you so much in love as your rhymes speak? Neither rhyme nor reason can express how much.”
“Sweet, above thought I love thee.” -William Shakespeare.
“Love is a spirit all compact of fire.” -William Shakespeare.
“Down on your knees, And thank Heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love.” -William Shakespeare.
“In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding: Sweet lovers love the spring.” -William Shakespeare.
“A lover’s eyes will gaze an eagle blind; A lover’s ears will hear the lowest sound.” -William Shakespeare.
“No sooner met but they looked, no sooner looked but they loved, no sooner loved, but they sighed, no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason. No sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; And in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage.” -William Shakespeare.
“I love you more than words can wield the matter, Dearer than eyesight, space, and liberty.” -William Shakespeare.
“But love, first learned in a lady’s eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain, / But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, / And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.” -William Shakespeare.
“Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were tempered with Love’s sighs.” -William Shakespeare.
“What’s mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.” -William Shakespeare.
“They do not love that do not show their love.” -William Shakespeare.
“A heart to love, and in that heart, Courage, to make’s love known.” -William Shakespeare.
“What is love? ‘Tis not hereafter: Present mirth hath present laughter.” -William Shakespeare.
“O mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love’s coming,
That can sing both high and low: Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man’s son doth know.” -William Shakespeare.
“There’s beggary in the love that can be reckoned.” -William Shakespeare.

Best William Shakespeare Quotes From Plays

“Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.” -William Shakespeare.
“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.” -William Shakespeare.
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” -William Shakespeare.
“This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war.” -William Shakespeare.
“I will wear my heart upon my sleeve; For daws to peck at.” -William Shakespeare.
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.” -William Shakespeare.
“When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.” -William Shakespeare.
“Love is blind, and lovers cannot see, The pretty follies that themselves commit.” -William Shakespeare.
“All that glisters is not gold.” -William Shakespeare.
“When you depart from me sorrow abides, and happiness takes his leave.” -William Shakespeare.
“The course of true love never did run smooth.” -William Shakespeare.
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” -William Shakespeare.
“My Oberon! What visions have I seen! Methought I was enamoured of an ass.” -William Shakespeare.
“If music be the food of love, play on.” -William Shakespeare.
“Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” -William Shakespeare.
“They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.” -William Shakespeare.
“What’s mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.” -William Shakespeare.
“My salad days, When I was green in judgment: cold in blood, To say as I said then! But, come, away; Get me ink and paper: He shall have every day a several greeting, Or I’ll unpeople Egypt.” -William Shakespeare.
“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.” -William Shakespeare.
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” -William Shakespeare.
“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead!” -William Shakespeare.
“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.” -William Shakespeare.
“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.” -William Shakespeare.
“The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.” -William Shakespeare.
“The play ‘s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.” -William Shakespeare.
“To be, or not to be; that is the question; Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer; The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles.” -William Shakespeare.
“Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.” -William Shakespeare.
“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?“ -William Shakespeare.
“By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.” -William Shakespeare.
“Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade ; But doth suffer a sea-change; Into something rich and strange.” -William Shakespeare.
“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown” -William Shakespeare.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend.” -William Shakespeare.
“Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thousand times, and now how abhorr’d in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it..” -William Shakespeare.
“But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.” -William Shakespeare.
“The worst is not, So long as we can say, ‘This is the worst.’” -William Shakespeare.
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” -William Shakespeare.
“Everyone can master a grief but he that has it.” -William Shakespeare.

Best William Shakespeare Quotes On Life Lessons

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.” -William Shakespeare.
“Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” -William Shakespeare.
“God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.” -William Shakespeare.
“Ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.” -William Shakespeare.
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
“Men are April when they woo, December when they wed; maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.” -William Shakespeare.
“Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.” -William Shakespeare.
“Love is too young to know what conscience is.” -William Shakespeare.
“And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.” -William Shakespeare.
“Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.” -William Shakespeare.
“It is a wise father that knows his own child.” -William Shakespeare.
“There is no darkness, but ignorance.” -William Shakespeare.
“Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.” -William Shakespeare.
“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, his acts being seven ages.” -William Shakespeare.
“Love is not love, which alters when it alteration finds.” -William Shakespeare.
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” -William Shakespeare.
“Thy overflow of good converts to bad.” -William Shakespeare.
“If money go before, all ways do lie open.” -William Shakespeare.
“Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.” -William Shakespeare.
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” -William Shakespeare.
“To do a great right, do a little wrong.” -William Shakespeare.
“To be, or not to be, that is the question.” -William Shakespeare.
“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.” -William Shakespeare.
“Brevity is the soul of wit.” -William Shakespeare.
“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.” -William Shakespeare.
“A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.” -William Shakespeare.
“No legacy is so rich as honesty.” -William Shakespeare.
“The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.” -William Shakespeare.
“In time we hate that which we often fear.” -William Shakespeare.
“Love sought is good; but given unsought is better.” -William Shakespeare.
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” -William Shakespeare.
“Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.” -William Shakespeare.
“The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.” -William Shakespeare.
“Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious-dear than life.” -William Shakespeare.
“Let life be short; else shame will be too long.” -William Shakespeare.
“Virtue itself ‘scapes not calumnious strokes.” -William Shakespeare.
“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!” -William Shakespeare.
“The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope.” -William Shakespeare.
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” -William Shakespeare.
“Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs.” -William Shakespeare.
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.” -William Shakespeare.
“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” -William Shakespeare.
“When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions.” -William Shakespeare.