144 Shakespeare Quotes Everyone Should Read At Least Once

“So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this and this gives life to thee.” - ' Sonnet 18'

“Love is merely a madness.” - Rosalind, 'As You Like It'

“How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath to say to me that thou art out of breath?” - Juliet, 'Romeo and Juliet'

“God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.” – Hamlet, "Hamlet"

“Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.” - 'King John'

“O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.” – Othello, "The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice"

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!” – Puck "Midsummer Night's Dream"

“I will praise any man that will praise me.” - 'Antony and Cleopatra'

“There’s many a man has more hair than wit.”

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”

“I am not bound to please thee with my answer.”

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”

“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”

“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

“Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.”

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

“These violent delights have violent ends.”

“I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.”