William Shakespeare Quotes

I am ill at these numbers. (Hamlet)

The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape. (Hamlet)

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told. (The Merchant of Venice)

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express’d in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station Are of a most select and generous chief in that. (Hamlet)

The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. (Much Ado About Nothing)

Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not […]

The shepherd seeks the sheep, and not the sheep the shepherd; but I seek my master, and my master seeks not me: therefore, I am no sheep… The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd, the shepherd for food follows not the sheep; thou for wages followest thy master, thy master for wages follows not thee: […]

A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse! (“Richard III”)

Good wine needs no bush. (As You Like It)

Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself And falls on the other side. (Macbeth)