William Shakespeare Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old William Shakespeare quotes, William Shakespeare sayings, and William Shakespeare proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

So, you are very welcome to our house. It must appear in other ways than words, Therefore, I scant this breathing courtesy. William Shakespeare
Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people. William Shakespeare
A table-full of welcome! William Shakespeare
Unthread the rude eye of rebellion, and welcome home again discarded faith. William Shakespeare
Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you. William Shakespeare
It wearies me, you say it wearies you; / But how I caught it, found it, or came by it / What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born / I am to learn; / And such a want-wit sadness makes of me, / That I have much ado to know myself. William Shakespeare
I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thine eyes and moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle’s. William Shakespeare
Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again. William Shakespeare
Daffodils, that come before the swallow dares, and take the winds of March with beauty. William Shakespeare
Give me some music. Music, moody food Of us that trade in love. William Shakespeare
Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsman to grim and comfortless despair. William Shakespeare
It is a wise father that knows his own child. William Shakespeare
Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee / Calls back the lovely April of her prime. William Shakespeare
Great floods have flown From simple sources. William Shakespeare
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on. William Shakespeare
When lofty trees I see barren of leaves, / Which erst from heat did canopy the herd, / And summer's green all girded up in sheaves, / Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard. William Shakespeare
He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man; and he that is more than a youth is not for me; and he that is less than a man I am not for him. William Shakespeare
Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face! I had rather lie in the woollen. William Shakespeare
Nay, faith, let not me play a woman: I have a beard coming. William Shakespeare
Expectation is the root of all heartache. William Shakespeare
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. William Shakespeare
The smallest worm will turn being trodden on, and doves will peck in safeguard of their brood. William Shakespeare
The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief. William Shakespeare
I stand condemned. A wandering vagabond. William Shakespeare
The lunatic, the lover, the poet, / Are of imagination all compact. William Shakespeare
In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours; In those freckles live their savours; I must go seek some dewdrops here, I must go seek some dewdrops here, William Shakespeare
In those freckles live their savours: I must go seek some dew-drops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear. William Shakespeare
Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? / Or sells eternity to get a toy? / For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy? William Shakespeare
Get you gone, you dwarf; / You minimus, of hindering knot-grass made; / You bead, you acorn. William Shakespeare
For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favour, / Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood, / A violet in the youth of primy nature,/ Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, / The perfume and suppliance of a minute, / No more. William Shakespeare