Plays written by Shakespeare, popularly known as "Shakespeare plays," showcase depth of emotion with breadth of creativity. Shakespeare plays continue to exert a profound impact on the literary scene. These plays are always responsive to the taste of the audience. By using literary devices such as rhythmic patterns and soliloquies, Shakespeare engaged the audience. Read Shakespeare plays to discover the richness of English literature. Or better yet, read these quotes culled from famous Shakespeare plays.
Love
If love be rough with you, be rough with love; Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.
Pain
One fire burns out another’s burning, One pain is lessen’d by another’s anguish.
Love
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
Care
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.
Strength
The weakest goes to the wall.
Anger
The brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper leaps o’er a cold decree.
Pity
As fire drives out fire, so pity, pity.
Loan
Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend.
Speech
Mend your speech a little, lest you may mar your fortunes.
Misery
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Justice
Fair is foul, and foul is fair.
Luck
If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me.
Kindness
Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.
Passion
Passion, I see, is catching.
Ambition
As he was valiant, I honour him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Brevity
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Death
All that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.
Rest
Rest, rest, perturbed spirit!
Revenge
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?
Future
Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides.
