William Shakespeare Quotes

For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?

What piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving, how express and admirable in action, how like an angel in apprehension, how like a god! The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals. And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

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.

From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.

Men in rage strike those that wish them best.

Words, words, words.

He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.

Me, poor man, my library
Was dukedom large enough.

Nothing will come of nothing: speak again.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!

I’ll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,
To die upon the hand I love so well.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.

When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.