You wrong me, and the world shall know it: though you have put me into darkness. – Troilus & Cressida – Act III, Scene II Twelfth Night: or What You Will To be wise, and love, Exceeds man’s might. – Timon of Athens, Act IV, Scene III Troilus & Cressida When there is nothing living but thee, thou shalt be welcome. I am sick of this false world and will love nought but even the mere necessities upon it. – Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I Timon of Athens Your voice shall be as strong as any man’s. With all kind love, good thoughts, and reverence. When beggars die there are no comets seen The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes. – Richard II, Act I, Scene I The Tragedy of Julius CaesarĬowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste of death but once. Mine honour is my life: both grow in one Take honour from me, and my life is done. O live, And make us weep to hear you fate, fair creature, Rare as you seem to be! – Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Act III, Scene II Richard II – Othello, Act III, Scene III Pericles, Prince of Tyre O, beware, my lord, of jealousy It is the green-ey’d monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on. – Measure for Measure, Act III, Scene I Othello I am so out of love with life, that I will sue to be rid of it. – Macbeth Act II, Scene I Measure for Measure Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell. I go, and it is done the bell invites me. Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage. – King Richard III, Act V, Scene IV Macbeth I have set my life upon a cast, and I will stand the hazard of the dye. – King Lear Act IV, Scene VI King Richard IIIīut shall I live in hope? All men, I hope, live so. When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools. – Henry IV, Part I, Act III, Scene I King Lear While you live, tell truth, and shame the devil. – Hamlet, Act III, Scene I Henry IV, Part I To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles. – As You Like It, Act III, Scene II Cymbelineįortune brings in some boats that are not steer’d. Will you sit down with me? and we two will rail against our mistress the world, and all our misery. O, how full of briars is this working day world! – As You Like It, Act I, Scene IV – Antony and Cleopatra, Act I, Scene I As You Like It Kingdoms are clay: our dungy earth alike feeds beast as man: the nobleness of life is, to do thus. I hope well of to-morrow and will lead you, where rather I’ll expect victorious life, then death and honour. – Antony and Cleopatra, Act III, Scene XIII – All Well That Ends Well, Act IV, Scene III Antony and Cleopatra The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipp’d them not and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherish’d by our virtues. – All’s Well That Ends Well, Act I, Scene I ‘Milk of human kindness’ – found in Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, this particular saying appears in the English language at some time between c.1603 – 1607.Ī selection of Shakespeare’s quotes on life can be found below, arranged in alphabetical order according to the title of the play from which they are drawn. ‘Eaten out of house and home’ – courtesy of Mistress Quickly who exclaimed that “ He hath eaten me out of house and home“ this particular saying first appears in Shakespeare’s Henry IV pt II (c.1596-1599), Act II, Scene I. Trinculo: “ I have been in such a pickle since I saw you last“. ‘In a pickle’ – the origins of which have been traced to Shakespeare’s The Tempest (1610), Act V, Scene I. Over the centuries, Shakespeare’s work has become the source of many sayings about life still in current usage, in addition to a host of famous Shakespeare quotes. Shakespeare had a good deal to say about life, expressed through the lines, speeches, and soliloquies he accorded a host of heroic, tragic, fanciful, humorous, or historical characters. Throughout the work of William Shakespeare, it is evident that the bard saw the world, to paraphrase Jacques in Shakespeare’s As You Like It, as “a stage, and all the men and women merely players upon it”.
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