William Shakespeare Quotes

To bed, to bed! there’s knocking at the gate: come, come, come, come, give me your hand. What’s done cannot be undone. – To bed, to bed, to bed! (Macbeth)

I give unto my wife my second best bed. (his will)

Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. (Romeo and Juliet)

Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight, For I never saw true beauty till this night. (Romeo and Juliet)

My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. (Henry V)

Could I come near your beauty with my nails I’d set my ten commandments in your face. (Henry VI)

My beauty, though but mean, Needs not the painted flourish of your praise: Beauty is not bought by judgement of the eye. (Love’s Labour’s Lost)

Beauty’s a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish’d once, for ever’s lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain, and cost. (The Passionate Pilgrim)

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. (As You Like It)

From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty’s rose might never die. (Sonnet 1)