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.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
Troilus and Cressida
- Nature
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! blow!
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drench’d our steeples, drown’d the cocks!
You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,
Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
Strike flat the thick rotundity o’ the world!
Crack nature’s moulds, all germens spill at once,
That make ingrateful man!
King Lear (c. 1606), Act III, Scene II, spoken by LearIn context
- Anger
- Nature
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1595), Act II, Scene I, spoken by OberonIn context
- Nature
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
- Music
- Nature
Where the bee sucks, there suck I:
In a cowslip’s bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bat’s back I do fly
After summer merrily.
Merrily, merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
The Tempest (c. 1611), Act V, Scene I, spoken by ArielIn context
- Happiness
- Nature
Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
As You Like It (c. 1599), Act II, Scene I, spoken by Duke SeniorIn context
- Nature
- Wisdom
Under the greenwood tree,
Who loves to lie with me
And turn his merry note
Unto the sweet bird’s throat,
Come hither, come hither, come hither!
Here shall he see
No enemy
But winter and rough weather.
As You Like It (c. 1599), Act II, Scene V, spoken by AmiensIn context
- Music
- Nature
Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man’s ingratitude.
Thy tooth is not so keen,
Because thou art not seen,
Although thy breath be rude.
As You Like It (c. 1599), Act II, Scene VII, spoken by AmiensIn context
- Character
- Nature
But look, the morn in russet mantle clad,
Walks o’er the dew of yon high eastward hill.
Hamlet (c. 1600), Act I, Scene I, spoken by HoratioIn context
- Nature
In nature’s infinite book of secrecy
A little I can read.
Antony and Cleopatra (c. 1606), Act I, Scene II, spoken by SoothsayerIn context
- Knowledge
- Nature
Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth
In strange eruptions
Henry IV, Part 1 (c. 1597), Act III, Scene I, spoken by HotspurIn context
- Nature

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