Quotes from Shakespeare

 

 

Romeo & Juliet by Sir Frank Dicksee

 

 

 

For aught that I could ever read,

Could ever hear by tale or history,

The course of true love never did run smooth. 

A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.

 

My heart

Is true as steel.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Act ii. Sc. 1.

 

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,

Which we ascribe to Heaven. 

All ’s Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 1.

 

No legacy is so rich as honesty. 

All ’s Well that Ends Well. Act iii. Sc. 5.

 

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. 

All ’s Well that Ends Well. Act iv. Sc. 3.

 

The head is not more native to the heart.

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

 

To be honest as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. 

Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

 

The devil hath power

To assume a pleasing shape. 

Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

 

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.  

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5.

 

Men of few words are the best men. 

King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 2.

 

Striving to better, oft we mar what ’s well. 

King Lear. Act i. Sc. 4.

 

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices

Make instruments to plague us.  

 

King Lear. Act v. Sc. 3.

 

Speak low if you speak love. 

Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.

 

Comparisons are odorous. 

Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 5.

 

Men

Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief

Which they themselves not feel. 

Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.

 

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. 

Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 1.