( The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 3, Scene 2) 50. ‘I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.’ (Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3, Scene 1) 49. ‘Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.’
‘Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.’ ‘We know what we are, but know not what we may be.’ ‘Neither a borrower nor a lender be for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.’ ‘But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.’ ‘The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interrèd with their bones.’ ‘Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.’ ‘The fault, dear Brutus, lies not within the stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.’ (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 1, Scene 1) 39. ( A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 1, Scene 1) 38. ‘The course of true love never did run smooth.’ ‘There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.’ ‘ To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.’
SHAKESPEER SAYINGS FULL
‘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.’
‘We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.’ ‘I am one who loved not wisely but too well.’ ( The Merchant of Venice, Act 3, Scene 1) 30. ‘If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?’ ‘How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!’ Nothing of him that doth fade, but doth suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange.’ ‘Full fathom five thy father lies, of his bones are coral made. ‘Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once.’ ‘Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.’ ‘ What light through yonder window breaks.’ ‘This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle… This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.’ ‘ Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.‘ ‘ Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.’ (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 1, Scene 1) 18. ‘Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.’ ‘ There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.’ ‘ A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!‘ ‘ Cry “havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war‘ ‘ Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears: I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.’ (The Merchant of Venice, Act 2, Scene 7) 13. ‘ The better part of valor is discretion‘ ‘ What’s in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.’ ‘ The lady doth protest too much, methinks‘ ‘ Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?’ ‘Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?‘ They have their exits and their entrances And one man in his time plays many parts.’ ‘ All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. ‘ To be, or not to be: that is the question’ Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Taleĥ0 Of Shakespeare’s Most Famous Quotes 1. This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order. Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15.