William Shakespeare
Shakespeare Quotes
We have collected the most famous Shakespeare quotes
(along with explanations)
Shakespeare quotes span the full bounds of the human experience as they explore different elements of life through comedy, tragedy, and romance. There are Shakespeare quotes about life and death, love and betrayal, each embedded in a famous play or poem.
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A ministering angel
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A pair of star-crossed lovers
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A pound of flesh
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A round unvarnished tale
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A sorry sight
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A spotless reputation
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A thousand times good night
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A tower of strength
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An improbable fiction
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An itching palm
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Antic disposition
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As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods
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Bated breath
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Brave new world
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Breathe life into a stone
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Breathe one's last
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Brevity is the soul of wit
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Brief authority
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Budge an inch
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Cakes and ale
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Caviary to the general
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Chance may crown me
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Chaos is come again
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Cruel to be kind
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Cudgel thy brains
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Dancing days
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Double, double toil and trouble
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Every inch a king
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Fair play
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Flaming youth
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For goodness' sake
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Foregone conclusion
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Full circle
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Gilded monuments
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Good riddance
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He hath eaten me out of house and home
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Heart on my sleeve
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Her infinite variety
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Hob nob
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Hoist with his own petard
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Hold a mirror up to nature
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Household words
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth
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In my heart of hearts
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In my mind's eye
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Infirm of purpose
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____ is the word
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It smells to heaven
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Knock, knock! Who's there?
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Laid on with a trowel
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Laugh oneself into stitches
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Let Rome in Tiber melt
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Let the world slip
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Let's kill all the lawyers
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Life's fitful fever
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Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile
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Make mad the guilty, and appall the free
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Masters of their fates
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More honored in the breach
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More in sorrow than in anger
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More sinned against than sinning
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More than kin and less than kind
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be
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Neither rhyme nor reason
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Nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so
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Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it
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On the windy side
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Once more unto the breach
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One fell swoop
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One may smile, and smile, and be a villain
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Passing strange
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Pomp and circumstance
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Put money in thy purse
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Salad days
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Screw your courage to the sticking place
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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
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Short shrift
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Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more
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So sweet was never so fatal
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Something wicked this way comes
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Sterner stuff
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Strange bedfellows
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Strive mightily
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Sweet are the uses of adversity
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Sweets to the sweet
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Swift as a shadow
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Take physic, pomp
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That way madness lies
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That within which passes show
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The be-all and the end-all
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The better part of valor is discretion
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The crack of doom
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The dogs of war
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The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
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The glass of fashion
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The makings of
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The marriage of true minds
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The milk of human kindness
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The multitudinous seas incarnadine
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The patient must minister to himself
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