English Quotations by William Shakespeare2

1. False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
2. Farewell, fair cruelty.
3. Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
4. For I can raise no money by vile means.
5. For my part, it was Greek to me.
6. Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
7. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
8. Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
9. Give thy thoughts no tongue.
10. Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
11. God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
12. God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
13. Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
14. He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.
15. He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
16. He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
17. He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.
18. Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
19. Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
20. How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
21. How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
22. How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
23. How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
24. How well he's read, to reason against reading!
25. I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
26. I bear a charmed life.
27. I dote on his very absence.
28. I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
29. I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
30. I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.