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
The Contenders
11 Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears: I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. - Julius Caesar
12 Off with his head! Richard III
13 This is very midsummer madness. - Twelfth Night
14 Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. - Sonnet 116
15 Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. - Julius Caesar
16 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.

17 What, you egg! - Macbeth
18 We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. - The Tempest
19 Whoever loved that loved not at first sight? - As You Like It
20 The fault, dear Brutus, lies not within the stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings. - Julius Caesar
21 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
22 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
23 All that glisters is not gold. - The Merchant of Venice
24 Now is the winter of our discontent. - Richard III
25 Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? - Macbeth
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