William Shakespeare Quotes

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Sweets to the sweet, farewell! I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet’s wife; I thought thy bride-bed to have decked, sweet maid, And not have strewed thy grave.

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

If love be rough with you, be rough with love;
Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.
Give me a case to put my visage in:
A visor for a visor! what care I
What curious eye doth quote deformities?
Here are the beetle brows shall blush for me.

I defy you, stars.

Are you sure That we are awake? It seems to me That yet we sleep, we dream

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact:
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,
That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,
Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven,
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.

Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.

So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
Act II

All's well that ends well.