I love Shakespeare, Hence i decided to compile a list of my top 15 favourite Shakespearean quotations 🙂
- The lady doth protest too much (Hamlet Act 3, scene 2, 222–230)
- If music be the food of love, play on (Twelfth Night Act 1, scene 1, 1–3)
- All the world’s a stage (As You Like It Act 2, scene 7, 139–143)
- Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind (A Midsummer Night’s Dream (I, i, 234))
- What light through yonder window breaks? (Romeo And Juliet Act 2, scene 2, 2–6)
- Nothing can come of nothing (King Lear (I, i, 92))
- And though she be but little, she is fierce.(A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Act 3, Scene 2)
- Off with his head! (King Richard III (III, iv, 76))
- Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps (Much Ado About Nothing (III, i, 106))
- Lord, what fools these mortals be (A Midsummer Nights Dream Act 3, scene 2, 110–115)
- Let every eye negotiate for itself (Much Ado About Nothing (II, i, 178-180))
- More matter with less art (Hamlet Act 2, scene 2, 92–99 )
- I am constant as the northern star (Julius Caesar (III, i, 60 – 62))
- O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me! (King Richard III (V, iii, 179))
- Give me my robe, put on my crown (Antony and Cleopatra (V, ii, 282-283))
You left out… ‘to be or not to be’