144 Shakespeare Quotes Everyone Should Read At Least Once

“Et tu, Brute?” – Julius Caesar, "The Tragedy of Julius Caesar"

“The Devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape.” – "Hamlet"

“April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.” – "Sonnet 98"

“The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?”

“Men should be what they seem.” – Iago, "The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice"

“I would not wish any companion in the world but you.”

“I am one who loved not wisely but too well.” – Othello, "The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice"

“A young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief.” – "Twelfth Night"

“Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. Then your love would also change.” – Juliet, "Romeo and Juliet"

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

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.” – "Romeo and Juliet"

“In black ink my love may still shine bright.” – "Sonnet 65"

“Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out even to the edge of doom.” – "Sonnet 116"

“See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand that I might touch that cheek!” – Romeo, "Romeo and Juliet"

“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.”

“For you, in my respect, are all the world.” – Helena, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

“Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.” - 'Sonnet 116'

“I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.” – Benedick, "Much ado about nothing"

“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.”

“My pride fell with my fortunes.”