William Shakespeare1564–1616The quotations of
William Shakespeare
English playwright and poet
1564–1616
335 quotes, most often on Love, Life & Death and Good & Evil. Part of the Writers and Poets collections.
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1595), Act V, Scene I, spoken by TheseusIn context
The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1595), Act V, Scene I, spoken by TheseusIn contextThe iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve.
Lovers, to bed; ’tis almost fairy time.A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1595), Act V, Scene I, spoken by TheseusIn context- A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1595), Act V, Scene I, spoken by PuckIn context
- The Tempest (c. 1611), Act I, Scene II, spoken by MirandaIn context
What seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of time?The Tempest (c. 1611), Act I, Scene II, spoken by ProsperoIn context- The Tempest (c. 1611), Act I, Scene II, spoken by ProsperoIn context
- The Tempest (c. 1611), Act I, Scene II, spoken by ArielIn context
- The Tempest (c. 1611), Act I, Scene II, spoken by CalibanIn context
- The Tempest (c. 1611), Act I, Scene II, spoken by ArielIn context
- The Tempest (c. 1611), Act II, Scene I, spoken by AntonioIn context
- The Tempest (c. 1611), Act II, Scene II, spoken by TrinculoIn context
Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises,
Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not.The Tempest (c. 1611), Act III, Scene II, spoken by CalibanIn context- The Tempest (c. 1611), Act V, Scene I, spoken by ArielIn context
- The Tempest (c. 1611), Act V, Scene I, spoken by MirandaIn context
