Shakespeare Quotes: Best Shakespearean Quote

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind". (see more)

O, I die, Horatio;
The potent poison quite o'er-crows my spirit:
I cannot live to hear the news from England;
But I do prophesy the election lights
On Fortinbras: he has my dying voice;
So tell him, with the occurrents, more and less,
Which have solicited. The rest is silence. (see more)

To his Wife, Anne in his will

The only mention that Shakespeare specifically makes of his wife was to leave her his "second best bed."

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To be or not to be, that is the question? (see more)

"Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love." (see more)

Ne'r jas there been a tale of such woe as this of Juliet and her Romeo. (see more)

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 (see more)

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.
Farewell; my blessing season this in thee!
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My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun,
Coral is far more red, than her lips red,
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun:
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head:
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks,
And in some perfumes is there more delight,
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know,
That music hath a far more pleasing sound:
I grant I never saw a goddess go,
My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.
And yet by heaven I think my love as rare,
As any she belied with false compare. (see more)

Jaques:
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.


As You Like It Act 2, scene 7, 139–143
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"Is this a dagger which i see before me,The handle toward my hand? Come,let me clutch thee" (see more)

Lady Macbeth

Unsex me here! (see more)

these violent delights have violent ends. and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which as they kiss consume. the sweetest honey's loathesome, in it's own deliciousness. therefore, love moderatly (see more)

you cream faced lune! (see more)

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.  (see more)

The course of true love never did run smooth;
A Midsummer Night's Dream
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I am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks:
Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
Having some business, do entreat her eyes
To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
What if her eyes were there, they in her head?
The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,
As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven
Would through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were not night.
See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
O, that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek! (see more)

to be or not to be for that is the question (see more)

What must be shall be.
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Hamlet:
"O that this too too sullied flesh would melt,Thaw,and resolve into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fixed his Canon 'gainst self-slaughter " (see more)