Top 25 Quotes by William Shakespeare of 4028 - Page 10

My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is called content, a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.

My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is called content, a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.

William Shakespeare

Kings, Heart, Contentment

William Shakespeare, Michael Hattaway (1993). “The Third Part of King Henry VI”, p.131, Cambridge University Press

And nothing is, but what is not.

William Shakespeare

Lady Macbeth, Darkness In Macbeth, Macbeth Play

'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 130

Welcome ever smiles, and farewell goes out sighing.

William Shakespeare

Thank You, Farewell, Welcome

'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 165

What must be shall be.

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (1756). “Romeo and Juliet ... With alterations, and an additional scene: by D. Garrick, etc”, p.49

Come not between the dragon and his wrath.

William Shakespeare

Wrath, Dragons, Lear

'King Lear' (1605-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. [124]

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.

William Shakespeare

Motivational, Love You, Water

William Shakespeare, John Pitcher (2010). “The Winter's Tale: Third Series”, p.295, A&C Black

Don't judge a man's conscience by looking at his face cause he may have a bad heart.

William Shakespeare

Heart, Men, Judging

Hear the meaning within the word.

William Shakespeare

Inspirational, Dealing With People

Make use of time, let not advantage slip.

William Shakespeare

Inspirational, Life, Time

1593 Venus and Adonis, stanza 22, l.129-32.

The object of Art is to give life a shape.

William Shakespeare

Life, Art, Giving

Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear

William Shakespeare

Memories, Memorable, Loss

'All's Well that Ends Well' (1603-4) act 5, sc. 3, l. 19

All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may.

William Shakespeare

Gone, Done, May

William Shakespeare (1825). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.173

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

William Shakespeare

Ocean, Marine, Men

'Pericles, Prince Of Tyre' (1606-8) act 2, sc. 1, l. [29]

Death is my son-in-law, death is my heir.

William Shakespeare

Death, Son, Law

William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, John Boydell, Samuel Johnson (1857). “King Lear. Romeo and Juliet”, p.277

Your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness.

William Shakespeare

Moving, Force, Gentleness

William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1831). “The dramatic works and poems of William Shakespeare, with notes, original and selected, and introductory remarks to each play”, p.245

Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love

William Shakespeare

Love You, Passion, Finest

William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.643

Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come, And do not spread the compost on the weeds To make them ranker.

William Shakespeare

Weed, Past, Heaven

William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Hamlet! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.240, BookCaps Study Guides

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

William Shakespeare

Halloween, Power, Madness

William Shakespeare (1996). “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Facing-pages Translation Into Contemporary English”, p.4, Lorenz Educational Publishers

In nature there's no blemish but the mind. None can be called deformed but the unkind.

William Shakespeare

Mind, Unkindness, Unkind

'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. [403]

Extremity is the trier of spirits.

William Shakespeare

Spirit, Extremes, Extremity

Waste not thy time in windy argument but let the matter drop.

William Shakespeare

Matter, Waste, Argument

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

William Shakespeare

Birthday, Time, Player

'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul.

William Shakespeare

Lying, Grief, Silence

William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.410, Cengage Learning EMEA

Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, tomorrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him: The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And - when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening - nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.

William Shakespeare

Death, Fall, Farewell

'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 352