shakespeare quotes

Let me take you a button-hole lower.
-- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
-- Wm. Shakespeare

Every cloud engenders not a storm.
-- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
-- William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar"

The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt.
-- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"

Even though it's widely attributed to him, Shakespeare never actually used the word "gadzooks."

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

-- Shakespeare: Henry VI, Part 2, act ii

For courage mounteth with occasion.
-- William Shakespeare, "King John"

Lay on, MacDuff, and curs'd be him who first cries, "Hold, enough!".
-- Shakespeare

“Not Hercules could have knock'd out his brains, for he had none.”
-- Shakespeare

Alas, how love can trifle with itself!
-- William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona"

What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty!
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!
William Shakespeare, spoken by Hamlet, Hamlet,(Act II, scene ii)

Talkers are no good doers.
-- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!
-- Wm. Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

I've touch'd the highest point of all my greatness;
And from that full meridian of my glory
I haste now to my setting. I shall fall,
Like a bright exhalation in the evening
And no man see me more.

-- Shakespeare

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet,
Are of imagination all compact...
-- Wm. Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

Harp not on that string.
-- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

He jests at scars who never felt a wound.
-- Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet, II. 2"

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his
argument.
-- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"

Zounds! I was never so bethumped with words
since I first called my brother's father dad.

-- William Shakespeare, "King John"

The phrase was not originally "Music has charms to soothe the savage beast," and the phrase was not Shakespeare's. William Congreve, in his play Mourning Bride, wrote "Music has charms to soothe a savage breast."

“Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.” (Shakespeare)

Shakespeare didn't originate the saying, "Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive." Sir Walter Scott did.

Every why hath a wherefore.
-- William Shakespeare, "A Comedy of Errors"

Patch griefs with proverbs.
-- William Shakespeare, "Much Ado About Nothing"

Must I hold a candle to my shames?
-- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice"

The Golden Rule Glendower: "I can call the spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: "Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do
call for them?"

-- William Shakespeare: Henry IV, Part I, act iii, scene i

He hath eaten me out of house and home.
-- William Shakespeare, "Henry IV"

All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed.
-- Shakespeare, "Merchant of Venice"

Conscience doth make cowards of us all.
-- Shakespeare