1590s · Skopia

Showing 163 quotes from the 1590s

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep. The more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

1597

★ 7.8

Play · Comedy (play)

Eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.

William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream · 1599

★ 7.2

Play · History (play)

See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!

William Shakespeare

Henry IV, Part 2 · 1597

★ 7.1

Play · History (play) · Tragedy (play)

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar · 1599

★ 7.0

Play · History (play)

I am not in the roll of common men.

William Shakespeare

Henry IV, Part 1 · 1597

★ 7.0

Play · History (play)

There lives not three good men unhanged in England, and one of them is fat and grows old.

William Shakespeare

Henry IV, Part 1 · 1597

★ 7.0

Play · History (play) · Tragedy (play)

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.

William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar · 1599

★ 6.4

Poem · Narrative poem

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.

William Shakespeare

Venus and Adonis · 1593

★ 6.3

Play · Comedy (play)

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love.

William Shakespeare

The Taming of the Shrew · 1594

★ 6.1

Good night, good night. Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say “Good night” till it be morrow.

William Shakespeare

1597

★ 5.6

Play · History (play) · Tragedy (play)

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.

William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar · 1599

★ 5.6

Play · Comedy (play)

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.

William Shakespeare

Love's Labour's Lost · 1597

★ 5.5

O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name, Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.

William Shakespeare

1597

★ 5.5

Play · Comedy (play)

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice · 1598

★ 5.5

Play · Comedy (play)

His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.

William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice · 1598

★ 5.5

Play · History (play) · Tragedy (play)

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interrèd with their bones.

William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar · 1599

★ 5.5

Poem · Narrative poem

Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.

William Shakespeare

The Rape of Lucrece · 1594

★ 5.5

Play · History (play)

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

William Shakespeare

Henry IV, Part 2 · 1597

★ 5.5

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

Christopher Marlowe

Hero and Leander · 1593

★ 5.3

Play · Comedy (play)

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream · 1599

★ 5.3

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