William Shakespeare quotes

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

—Hamlet in Hamlet

"From women's eyes this doctrine I derive:

They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;

They are the books, the arts, the academes,

That show, contain, and nourish all the world."

—Berowne in Love's Labor's Lost

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall."

—Escalus in Measure for Measure

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,

And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."

A Midsummer Night's Dream

"Is love a tender thing? it is too rough,

Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn."

Romeo and Juliet

"If music be the food of love, play on."

Twelfth Night

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate."

Sonnet 18

"Love sought is good, but given unsought is better."

Twelfth Night

"Hear my soul speak:

The very instant that I saw you, did

My heart fly to your service."

The Tempest