Shakespeare Quotations

Lord, what fools these mortals be! ~ A Midsummer Night's Dream

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. ~ As You Like It

We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with a sleep. ~ The Tempest

To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub. ~ Hamlet

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? ~ Hamlet

What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! In form and moving, how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension, how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so. ~ Hamlet

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

Though this be madness, yet there is method in it. ~ Hamlet

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. ~ Hamlet

The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. ~ The Merchant of Venice

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? ~ The Merchant Of Venice

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears! I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. ~ Julius Caesar

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

Et tu, Brute? Then fall Ceasar. ~ Julius Caesar

Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. ~ Julius Caesar

Caesar beware the ides of March. ~ Julius Caesar

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look, he thinks too much; such men are dangerous. ~ Julius Caesar

O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? ~ Romeo and Juliet

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow. ~ Romeo and Juliet

But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. ~ Romeo and Juliet

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet. ~ Romeo and Juliet

O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die. ~ Romeo and Juliet

Then must you speak of one that loved not wisely but too well. ~ Othello

A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! ~ Richard III