Shakespeare Quotes I Love

Will add more later!

Antony & Cleopatra (c. 1606):

Eternity was in our lips and eyes,
Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor
But was a race of heaven.
-"Cleopatra", Act 1, scene 3

Music--moody food
Of us that trade in love.
-"Cleopatra", Act 2, scene 5

He wears the rose
Of youth upon him.
-"Antony", Act 3, scene 8

I and my sword will earn our chronicle.
-"Antony", Act 3, scene 8

When valour preys on reason,
It eats the sword it fights with.
-"Enobarbus", Act 3, scene 8



Hamlet (c.1603):

Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.
-"Hamlet", Act 2, scene 2

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below;
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
-"Claudius", Act 3, scene 3

When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.
-"Claudius", Act 4, scene 5

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
- "Hamlet", Act 2, Scene 2

"To die, to sleep; to sleep: perchance to dream"
-"Hamlet", Act 3, Scene 1

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
-“Hamlet“, Act 1, scene 5



King Lear (c. 1605):

Come not between the dragon and his wrath.
-“King Lear“, Act 1, scene 1

Have more than thou showest; Speak less than thou knowest.
- "The Fool", Act I, Scene 4

The prince of darkness is a gentleman.
-“Edgar“, Act 3, scene 4

When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools.
-“King Lear“, Act 4, scene 4

Reason in madness!
-“Edgar“, Act 4, scene 4



Macbeth (c. 1603):

If you can look into the seeds of time,
And say which grain will grow, and which will not,
Speak.
-“Banquo“, Act 1, scene 3

Look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under it.
-“Lady Macbeth”, Act 1, scene 5

Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
-“Witches”, Act 4, scene 1

When our actions do not,
Our fears do make us traitors.
-“Lady Macduff”, Act 4, scene 2



Measure for Measure (c. 1603):

If I must die,
I will encounter darkness as a bride,
And hug it in mine arms.
-“Claudio”, Act 3, scene 1



A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1596):

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
-“Helena”, Act 1, scene 1



Othello (c. 1603):

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at.
- "Iago", Act 1, Scene 1



Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595):

What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.
-“Juliet”, Act 2, Sc. 2

For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
-“Prince“, Act V, scene iii



Twelfth Night (c. 1601):

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
-Olivia, Act 3, scene 1



Random:

And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.
- "Julius Caesar", Act 1, Scene 2


An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told.
- "King Richard III", Act 4, Scene 4

The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it.
- "Troilus and Cressida", Act 4, Scene 5

Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear.
- "All's Well that Ends Well", Act 5, Scene 3

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
- "Love's Labour's Lost", Act 5, Scene 1

In time we hate that which we often fear.
-"Charmian", Act 1, scene 3