Quotes by William Shakespeare

The game is up.
"Cymbeline", Act 3 scene 3

I have not slept one wink.
"Cymbeline", Act 3 scene 4

No, 'tis slander,
Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue
Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath
Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie
All corners of the world.
"Cymbeline", Act 3 scene 4

A little more than kin, and less than kind.
"Hamlet", Act 1 scene 2

Frailty, thy name is woman!
"Hamlet", Act 1 scene 2

He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.
"Hamlet", Act 1 scene 2

Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in,
Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
"Hamlet", Act 1 scene 3

Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
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.
"Hamlet", Act 1 scene 3

But to my mind, though I am native here
And to the manner born, it is a custom
More honoured in the breach than the observance.
"Hamlet", Act 1 scene 4

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
"Hamlet", Act 1 scene 4

Every man has business and desire,
Such as it is.
"Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5

Leave her to heaven
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
To prick and sting her.
"Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
"Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5

Brevity is the soul of wit.
"Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2

The devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape.
"Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2

The play's the thing
Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
"Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
"Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2

Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.
"Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2

What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!
"Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go.
"Hamlet", Act 3 scene 1