55 Best SHAKESPEARE Quotes About DEATH AND LOVE!

“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 about death and love!

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Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Death And Love

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.” -William Shakespeare
“Love sought is good, but giv’n unsought is better.” -William Shakespeare
“And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!” -William Shakespeare
“If music be the food of love, play on.” -William Shakespeare
“Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.” -William Shakespeare
“To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream.” -William Shakespeare
“Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake.” -William Shakespeare
“I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.” -William Shakespeare
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” -William Shakespeare
“Cupid is a knavish lad, thus to make females mad.” -William Shakespeare
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.” -William Shakespeare
“The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.” -William Shakespeare
“Don’t waste your love on somebody who doesn’t value it.” -William Shakespeare
“Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.” -William Shakespeare
“Sweets to the sweet.” -William Shakespeare
“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.” -William Shakespeare
“Nothing in his life became him like leaving it.” -William Shakespeare
“Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.—Lady, as you are mine, I am yours. I give away myself for you and dote upon the exchange.” -William Shakespeare
“I do love nothing in the world so well as you—is not that strange?” -William Shakespeare
“When you depart from me sorrow abides, and happiness takes his leave.” -William Shakespeare
“By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Death

“Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest:” -William Shakespeare
“Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated: Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.” -William Shakespeare
“The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.” -William Shakespeare
“When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.” -William Shakespeare
“He that dies pays all debts.” -William Shakespeare
“An Angelo for Claudio, death for death!” -William Shakespeare
“And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!” -William Shakespeare
“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.” -William Shakespeare
“Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.” -William Shakespeare
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.” -William Shakespeare
“I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.” -William Shakespeare
“Nothing in his life became him like leaving it.” -William Shakespeare
“To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream.” -William Shakespeare
“By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.” -William Shakespeare
“Some guard these traitors to the block of death, treason’s true bed and yielder up of breath.” -William Shakespeare
“To die, to sleep. To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.” -William Shakespeare
“Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Love

“For stony limits cannot hold love out, And what love can do that dares love attempt.” -William Shakespeare
“Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” -William Shakespeare
“Do thou but close our hands with holy words, Then love-devouring death do what he dare; It is enough I may but call her mine.” -William Shakespeare
“Under love’s heavy burden do I sink.” -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
“The course of true love never did run smooth.” -William Shakespeare
“Beshrew your eyes, They have o’erlooked me and divided me. 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
“O love, be moderate. Allay thy ecstasy. In measure rein thy joy.” -William Shakespeare
“Thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.” -William Shakespeare
“So are you to my thoughts as food to life, Or as sweet-seasoned showers are to the ground.” -William Shakespeare
“I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say ‘I love you.’” -William Shakespeare
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” -William Shakespeare
“Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love.” -William Shakespeare
“I humbly do beseech of your pardon, For too much of loving you.” -William Shakespeare
“If thou remember’st not the slightest folly That ever love did make thee run into, Thou hast not loved.” -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
“What is love? ‘Tis not hereafter: Present mirth hath present laughter.” -William Shakespeare
“He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she: And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.” -William Shakespeare
“Now join hands, and with your hands your hearts.” -William Shakespeare
“Love hath made thee a tame snake.” -William Shakespeare
“Sweet, above thought I love thee.” -William Shakespeare
“Love is a spirit all compact of fire.” -William Shakespeare
“I can express no kinder sign of love, than this kind kiss.” -William Shakespeare
“Let’s go hand in hand, not one before another.” -William Shakespeare
“O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day, / Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away!” -William Shakespeare
“To be wise, and love, Exceeds man’s might.” -William Shakespeare
“There’s beggary in the love that can be reckoned.” -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

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Life

“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Get thee to a nunnery.” -William Shakespeare
“As merry as the day is long.” -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
“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

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Friendship

“He that is thy friend indeed, / He will help thee in thy need: / If thou sorrow, he will weep; / If thou wake, he cannot sleep: / Thus of every grief in heart.” -William Shakespeare
He with thee doth bear a part. / These are certain signs to know / Faithful friend from flattering foe.” -William Shakespeare
“Away, boy, from the troops, and save thyself; / For friends kill friends, and the disorder’s such / As war were hoodwink’d.” -William Shakespeare
“To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods.” -William Shakespeare
“Madam, you wrong the King’s love with these fears; / Your hopes and friends are infinite.” -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
“That I will here dismiss my loving friends, / And to my fortunes and the people’s favour / Commit my cause in balance to be weigh’d.” -William Shakespeare
“Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.” -William Shakespeare
“There is flattery in friendship.” -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.”
“I rais’d him, and I pawn’d / Mine honour for his truth; who being so heighten’d, / He watered his new plants with dews of flattery, / Seducing so my friends; and to this end / He bow’d his nature, never known before.” -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 any man challenge this, he / is a friend to Alencon and an enemy to our person; if thou / encounter any such, apprehend him, an thou dost me love.” -William Shakespeare
“To Milan let me hear from thee by letters / Of thy success in love, and what news else / Betideth here in absence of thy friend; / And I likewise will visit thee with mine.” -William Shakespeare
“Madam, you wrong the King’s love with these fears; / Your hopes and friends are infinite.” -William Shakespeare
“Friendship is constant in all other things / Save in the office and affairs of love.”
“My good friends, I’ll leave you till night.” -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
“Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.” -William Shakespeare
“That which I would discover / The law of friendship bids me to conceal.” -William Shakespeare
“I thank thee, gentle Percy; and be sure / I count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul rememb’ring my good friends; / And as my fortune ripens with thy love, / It shall be still thy true love’s recompense.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes From Plays

“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
“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
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend.” -William Shakespeare
“The play ‘s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.” -William Shakespeare
“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead!” -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
“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?“ -William Shakespeare
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” -William Shakespeare
“Love is blind, and lovers cannot see, The pretty follies that themselves commit.”
“All that glisters is not gold.” -William Shakespeare
“But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.” -William Shakespeare
“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.” -William Shakespeare
“My Oberon! What visions have I seen! Methought I was enamoured of an ass.”
“If music be the food of love, play on.” -William Shakespeare
“Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.” -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
“They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.” -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
“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
“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
“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.” -William Shakespeare
“The worst is not, So long as we can say, ‘This is the worst.’” -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

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Happiness

“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
“Let’s go hand in hand, not one before another.” -William Shakespeare
“Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.- Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!” -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
“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
“I wish you all the joy you can wish.” -William Shakespeare
“Joy absent, grief is present for that time.” -William Shakespeare
“All days of glory, joy, and happiness.” -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
“Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.” -William Shakespeare
“O God that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts.” -William Shakespeare
“There is tears for his love, joy for his fortune, honor for his valor, and death for his ambition.” -William Shakespeare
“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” -William Shakespeare
“But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.” -William Shakespeare
“I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!” -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
“How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?” -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
“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
“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
“Silence is the perfectest herald of joy I were but little happy, if I could say how much.” -William Shakespeare
“If this be so, the gods do mean to strike me To death with mortal joy.” -William Shakespeare
“Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief, Burst smilingly.” -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

Best William Shakespeare Quotes On Life Lessons

“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
“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
“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
“If money go before, all ways do lie open.” -William Shakespeare
“Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.” -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
“God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.” -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
“Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.” -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
“Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.” -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
“Love is too young to know what conscience is.” -William Shakespeare
“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition: oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.” -William Shakespeare
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” -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.” -William Shakespeare
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”
“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
“This above all; to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Time

“O, call back yesterday, bid time return.” -William Shakespeare
“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.” -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
“Things without all remedy should be without regard: what’s done is done.” -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
“A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.” -William Shakespeare
“Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.” -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
“We are time’s subjects, and time bids be gone.” -William Shakespeare
“Time … thou ceaseless lackey to eternity.” -William Shakespeare
“Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?” -William Shakespeare
“We have seen better days.” -William Shakespeare
“Much rain wears the marble.” -William Shakespeare
“Time be thine, And thy best graces spend it at thy will.” -William Shakespeare
“The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!” -William Shakespeare
“The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.” -William Shakespeare
“The time is out of joint.” -William Shakespeare
“Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.” -William Shakespeare
“Time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop.” -William Shakespeare
“Youth is full of sport, age’s breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.” -William Shakespeare
“I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.” -William Shakespeare
“And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch’d.” -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
“Make use of time, let not advantage slip; Beauty within itself should not be wasted: Fair flowers that are not gather’d in their prime Rot and consume themselves in little time.” -William Shakespeare
“See the minutes, how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.” -William Shakespeare
“Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes. Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour’d As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.” -William Shakespeare
“Old Time the clock-setter.” -William Shakespeare
“Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then ’tis time to do’t. Hell is murky!”
“Time’s glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.” -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
“At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May’s new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes From Romeo And Juliet

“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
“But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun.” -William Shakespeare
“One fairer than my love? the all-seeing sun Ne’er saw her match since first the world begun.” -William Shakespeare
“This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.” -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
“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
“Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof.” -William Shakespeare
“Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties.” -William Shakespeare
“Young men’s love then lies Not truly in their hearts but in their eyes.” -William Shakespeare
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” -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
“What must be shall be.” -William Shakespeare
“If he be married my grave is like to be my wedding bed.” -William Shakespeare
“O, I am Fortune’s fool!” -William Shakespeare
“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life.”
“I fear too early, for my mind misgives; Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars,
“Shall bitterly begin.” -William Shakespeare
“I defy you, 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
“These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume.” -William Shakespeare
“Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.” -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
“Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.” -William Shakespeare
“All are punished.” -William Shakespeare
“These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die.” -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.” -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
“Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.” -William Shakespeare
“Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.” -William Shakespeare
“Thus with a kiss I die.” -William Shakespeare