Quotes by William Shakespeare

This is the short and the long of it.
"The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 2 scene 2

Why, then the world's mine oyster,
Which I with sword will open.
"The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 2 scene 2

We have some salt of our youth in us.
"The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 2 scene 3

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.
"The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 3 scene 2

Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole.
"The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 4 scene 1

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.
"The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 5 scene 1

No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en;
In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
"The Taming of the Shrew", Act 1 scene 1

I would fain die a dry death.
"The Tempest", Act 1 scene 1

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.
"The Tempest", Act 1 scene 1

Come unto these yellow sands,
And then take hands:
Courtsied when you have, and kiss'd
The wild waves whist.
"The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

Fill all thy bones with aches.
"The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

From the still-vexed Bermoothes.
"The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

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.
"The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently.
"The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated
To closeness and the bettering of my mind.
"The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me
From mine own library with volumes that
I prize above my dukedom.
"The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

Like one
Who having into truth, by telling of it,
Made such a sinner of his memory,
To credit his own lie.
"The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

My library
Was dukedom large enough.
"The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

The fringed curtains of thine eye advance.
"The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple:
If the ill spirit have so fair a house,
Good things will strive to dwell with 't.
"The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2