Quotes by William Shakespeare

What seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of time?
"The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

A very ancient and fish-like smell.
"The Tempest", Act 2 scene 2

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
"The Tempest", Act 2 scene 2

He that dies pays all debts.
"The Tempest", Act 3 scene 2

A kind
Of excellent dumb discourse.
"The Tempest", Act 3 scene 3

Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
"The Tempest", Act 4 scene 1

Merrily, merrily shall I live now,
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
"The Tempest", Act 5 scene 1

Where the bee sucks, there suck I;
In a cowslip's bell I lie.
"The Tempest", Act 5 scene 1

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
"The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 1 scene 1

I have no other but a woman's reason:
I think him so, because I think him so.
"The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 1 scene 2

O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day!
"The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 1 scene 3

O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible,
As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple.
"The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 2 scene 1

That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
"The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 3 scene 1

Come not within the measure of my wrath.
"The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 5 scene 4

How use doth breed a habit in a man!
"The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 5 scene 4

What's gone and what's past help
Should be past grief.
"The Winter's Tale", Act 3 scene 2

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.
"Timon of Athens", Act 3 scene 1

We have seen better days.
"Timon of Athens", Act 4 scene 2

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
"Titus Andronicus", Act 1 scene 2

The end crowns all,
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it.
"Troilus and Cressida", Act 4 scene 5