Shakespeare Quotes

About William Shakespeare
He has left nothing to say about nothing or any thing.
John Keats

Quotations from the plays of William Shakespeare


Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Cassius of ‘Julius Caesar’

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.
Jaques of ‘As you like it’

If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Shylock of ‘The Merchant of Venice’


There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat.
And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.