The 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.

Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stone.
Had I your tongues and eyes, I’ld use them so
That heaven’s vault should crack. She’s gone for ever!
I know when one is dead, and when one lives;
She’s dead as earth.
King Lear (c. 1606), Act V, Scene III, spoken by LearIn context
- Life & Death
Put out the light, and then put out the light
Othello (c. 1604), Act V, Scene II, spoken by OthelloIn context
- Life & Death
I kiss’d thee ere I kill’d thee. No way but this,
Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.
Othello (c. 1604), Act V, Scene II, spoken by OthelloIn context
- Life & Death
- Love
O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers.
Julius Caesar (1599), Act III, Scene I, spoken by AntonyIn context
- Life & Death
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar.
Julius Caesar (1599), Act III, Scene II, spoken by AntonyIn context
- Good & Evil
- Life & Death
Full fathom five thy father lies.
Of his bones are coral made.
Those are pearls that were his eyes.
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
The Tempest (c. 1611), Act I, Scene II, spoken by ArielIn context
- Change
- Life & Death
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,
A stage, where every man must play a part,
And mine a sad one.
The Merchant of Venice (c. 1597), Act I, Scene I, spoken by AntonioIn context
- Acting
- Life & Death
I am sure care’s an enemy to life.
Twelfth Night (c. 1601), Act I, Scene III, spoken by Sir TobyIn context
- Happiness
- Life & Death
Come away, come away, death.
And in sad cypress let me be laid.
Fly away, fly away, breath;
I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
Twelfth Night (c. 1601), Act II, Scene IV, spoken by DukeIn context
- Life & Death
- Love
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Macbeth (c. 1606), Act V, Scene V, spoken by MacbethIn context
- Life & Death
- Time
O, withered is the garland of the war,
The soldier’s pole is fallen; young boys and girls
Are level now with men. The odds is gone,
And there is nothing left remarkable
Beneath the visiting moon.
Antony and Cleopatra (c. 1606), Act IV, Scene XV, spoken by CleopatraIn context
- Life & Death
- War & Peace
Give me my robe. Put on my crown. I have
Immortal longings in me.
Antony and Cleopatra (c. 1606), Act V, Scene II, spoken by CleopatraIn context
- Life & Death
I am fire and air; my other elements
I give to baser life.
Antony and Cleopatra (c. 1606), Act V, Scene II, spoken by CleopatraIn context
- Life & Death
They say the tongues of dying men
Enforce attention like deep harmony.
Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain
Richard II (c. 1595), Act II, Scene I, spoken by GauntIn context
- Life & Death
- Talking
The sense of death is most in apprehension;
And the poor beetle that we tread upon
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
As when a giant dies.
Measure for Measure (c. 1604), Act III, Scene I, spoken by IsabellaIn context
- Fear
- Life & Death

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