Shakespeare was famously known to have invented some quite a number of English words and most of his quotes are well known to be made of beauty and romanticism. Also, his quotes carry a weight of wisdom and sometimes, some sort of hidden truth.
Shakespeare is most notable to have created most of famous quotes you can ever imagine. Anytime you take a glance at his quotes with deep reasoning, you begin to think if the quote was/is about you.
Among the countless quotes Shakespeare had brought to life, these are some 30 core quotes we think are among his greatest quotes. Check them out!
‘Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?‘
Book: Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2
‘A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!‘
Book: Richard III, Act 5, Scene 4
‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.’
Book: Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 5
‘Now is the winter of our discontent’
Book: Richard III, Act 1, Scene 1
‘To be, or not to be: that is the question’
Book: Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1
‘All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.’
Book: As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 7
‘Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?’
Book: Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 1
‘The lady doth protest too much, methinks‘
Book: Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2
‘Beware the Ides of March.‘
Book: Julius Caesar, Act 1, Scene 2
‘Get thee to a nunnery.‘
Book: Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1
‘Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.’
Book: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 1, Scene 1
‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.’
Poem: Sonnet 18
‘Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.‘
Book: Henry IV, Part 2, Act 3, Scene 1
‘Brevity is the soul of wit.‘
Book: Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2
‘If music be the food of love play on.‘
Book: Twelfth Night, Act 1, Scene 1
‘What’s in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.’
Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2
‘The better part of valor is discretion‘
Book: Henry IV, Part 1, Act 5, Scene 4
‘All that glisters is not gold.‘
Book: The Merchant of Venice, Act 2, Scene 7
‘Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears: I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.’
Book: Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2
‘Cry “havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war‘
Book: Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 1
‘Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.’
Poem: Sonnet 116
‘The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interrèd with their bones.’
Book: Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2
‘This is very midsummer madness.’
Book: Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 4
‘Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.’
Book: Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3, Scene 1
‘I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.’
Book: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 3, Scene 2
‘We have seen better days.’
Book: Timon of Athens, Act 4, Scene 2
‘But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.’
Book: Julius Caesar, Act 1, Scene 2
‘Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.’
Book: Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3
‘We know what we are, but know not what we may be.’
Book: Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5
‘Off with his head!’
Book: Richard III, Act 3, Scene 4
‘Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.’
Book: The Tempest, Act 2, Scene 2
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