Quotes by William Shakespeare

“So wise so young, they say, do never live long.”

“Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.”

“Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What ist thou sayst? Her voice was ever soft.”

“O wonderful, wonderful, most wonderful wonderful! and yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all whooping!”

“La vida es mi tortura y la muerte será mi descanso.”

“When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew”

“Yes, faith; it is my cousins duty to make curtsy and say Father, as it please you. But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say Father, as it please me.”

“And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.”

“Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.”

“A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as the schoolboy on his way to school. (Act 2, scene 2)”

“This worlds a city full of straying streets, and deaths the market-place where each one meets.”

“Love is a smoke raisd with the fume of sighs; being purgd, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes; being vexd, a sea nourishd with lovers tears; what is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall, and a preserving sweet.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...”

“I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.”

“Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.”

“Theres little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.”

“true apothecary thy drugs art quick”