Top Ten Shakespeare Quotes

Ahh The Bard, is there anything he couldn't say that isn't gravestone worthy? As he has been heralded as the greatest writer of all time for so many centuries now, the subject of his finest line is much debated and hotly contested. The only rules are, keep it of a reasonable length, and it must have been penned by Shakespeare. So that's sonnets and stage instructions included! The game is afoot, get voting!

The Top Ten

  1. 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. - As You Like It

    This is so true! Love this quote!

  2. To be, or not to be: that is the question. - Hamlet

  3. Beware the Ides of March. - Julius Caesar

  4. A horse! a horse! My kingdom for a horse! - Richard III

    Very generous offer of Richard III to make. I wonder if he followed through with it.

    this is a wonderful quote from Richard the third if you are looking for your horse ! this is most famous . I really like this quote it is very good

  5. Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? - Romeo and Juliet

    I think this quote is romantic and it was from the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet . And it is one of the most classic quotes !

  6. Exit, pursued by a bear - The Winter's Tale

  7. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. - Twelfth Night

  8. What’s in a name? A rose by any name would smell as sweet. - Romeo and Juliet

  9. Nothing will come of nothing. - King Lear

  10. The course of true love never did run smooth. - A Midsummer Night's Dream

    11. The Newcomers
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    What, you egg! - Macbeth

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    A fool thinks himself to be a wise man, but a wise man knows himself a fool.

    13. The Contenders

  13. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears: I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. - Julius Caesar

  14. Off with his head! Richard III

  15. This is very midsummer madness. - Twelfth Night

  16. Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. - Sonnet 116

  17. Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. - Julius Caesar

  18. Lord, what fools these mortals be! - A Midsummer Night's Dream

    This quote is from Puck the fairy who has a great sense of humor from Midsummer Night 's Dream and it is the most famous.

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

  20. Whoever loved that loved not at first sight? - As You Like It

  21. The fault, dear Brutus, lies not within the stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings. - Julius Caesar

  22. 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? - The Merchant of Venice

  23. Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. - Macbeth

  24. All that glisters is not gold. - The Merchant of Venice

  25. Now is the winter of our discontent. - Richard III

  26. Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? - Macbeth

  27. Full fathom five thy father lies, of his bones are coral made. Those are pearls that were his eyes. Nothing of him that doth fade, but doth suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange. - The Tempest

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