100+ Shakespeare Quotes: How to Quote Shakespeare Perfectly

"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."

"Doubt thou the stars are fire; doubt that the sun doth move; doubt truth to be a liar; but never doubt I love."

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."

"If music be the food of love, play on."

"Journey's end in lovers meeting."

"When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew—love at first sight is real."

"She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes in shape no bigger than an agate stone on the fore-finger of an alderman, drawn with a team of little atomi over men's noses as they lie asleep."

"I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest."

"The course of true love never did run smooth."

"Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-browed night, give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars."

"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."

"With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls; for stony limits cannot hold love out."

"I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself and falls on the other."

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

"Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, and put a barren sceptre in my gripe."

"Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it; he died as one that had been studied in his death to throw away the dearest thing he owed, as 'twere a careless trifle."

"He who ascends to mountaintops seeks the highest place, yet finds no peace there."

"Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't."

"I am in blood stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o'er."

"To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus: our fears in Banquo stick deep."

"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."

"There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune."

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

"I dreamt my dagger was a sword, and I was king."

"There's daggers in men's smiles; the near in blood, the nearer bloody."

"False face must hide what the false heart doth know."

"Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man: O, wonder of wonders!"

"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!"

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once."

"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together."

"I am not what I am."

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him."

"This was the most unkindest cut of all."

"Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water."

"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."

"I should have been that I am had I known what I had been."

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings."

"There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow."

"What's past is prologue."

"Fortune brings in some boats that are hauled ashore."

"Our hour is limited; too soon, our play is done."

"The wheel is come full circle; I am here."

"Time will unfold what plighted cunning hides."

"When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes."

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."

"A man's destiny is his own character."

"The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike."

"No legacy is so rich as honesty."

"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."

"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"

"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."

"Conscience does make cowards of us all."

"Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows."

"The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief."

"It is a wise father that knows his own child."

"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time."

"Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more."

"I have supp'd full with horrors; direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, cannot once start me."

"She should have died hereafter; there would have been a time for such a word."

"Out, damned spot! Out, I say!"

"Let grief convert to anger; blunt not the heart, enrage it."

"My heart is full of woe; I have no strength to cry."

"O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!"

"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions."

"I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space—were it not that I have bad dreams."

"The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns."

"I am sick at heart."

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em."

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."

"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

"I do wear my folly like a gentleman’s hat, and show it most when I have occasion to hide my wisdom."

"The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."

"If I cannot prove a lover, I'll prove a villain."

"I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men."

"Many can catch a louse, but few can catch a joke."

"The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness."

"He jests at scars that never felt a wound."

"Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle!"

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once."

"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more."

"If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly."

"I’ll fight with my invention; if I can’t, I’ll die with my reputation."

"O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention!"

"Disguise, I see, thou art a wickedness, wherein the pregnant enemy does much."

"I am constant as the northern star, of whose true-fix’d and resting quality there is no fellow in the firmament."

"Lend me your hearts and hands, Rome!"

"He has a tear for pity and a hand open as day for melting charity."

"I dare do all that may become a man; who dares do more is none."

"To be, or not to be—that is the question."

"I am as valiant as Hercules."

"Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and summer’s lease hath all too short a date."

"Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!"

"The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, and these are of them."

"The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose."

"The sky is changed, and though I am not mad, I would to heaven I were!"

"The moon shines bright—in such a night as this."

"Not poppy nor mandragora, nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep which thou owedst yesterday."

"The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head."

"Full fathom five thy father lies; of his bones are coral made; those are pearls that were his eyes."

"There is not wind enough to twirl a straw."

"The rain it raineth every day."

"Come, thick night, and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell."

"To be, or not to be—that is the question."

"This above all: to thine own self be true."

"I am not what I am."

"I know not ‘know’; I know not why I came here tonight."

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."

"I am Richard II, know ye not that?"

"I am not what I am called, nor what I seem."

"What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

"I am not proud, but I am so happy I wish I were less so."

"I am not what I am, nor what I seem, nor what I shall be."

"I know myself now."

"I am not mad; I am but merry."