FAMOUS SHAKESPEARE QUOTES ABOUT LANGUAGE

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“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” – As You Like It

“The course of true love never did run smooth.” – A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“To be, or not to be: that is the question.” – Hamlet

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.” – Romeo and Juliet

“This above all: to thine own self be true.” – Hamlet

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” – Julius Caesar

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

“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow.” – Romeo and Juliet

“The eyes are the window to your soul.” – The Merchant of Venice

“What’s done is done.” – Macbeth

“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” – Hamlet

“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” – Romeo and Juliet

“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!” – King Lear

“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-ey’d monster.” – Othello

“To thine own self be true.” – Hamlet

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” – Twelfth Night

“All that glitters is not gold.” – The Merchant of Venice

“Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind.” – A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“The better part of valor is discretion.” – Henry IV, Part 1

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

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

“It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” – Macbeth

“Out, damned spot! Out, I say!” – Macbeth

“When words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain.” – Richard II

“What’s to come is still unsure.” – Antony and Cleopatra