Shakespeare Quotes by Theme
Quotes from all 37 plays, organised by theme. Each page collects the key passages on that subject across Shakespeare's full body of work.
Love28 quotesPower19 quotesTime21 quotesDisguise and Deception19 quotesGrief and Loss15 quotesHonour12 quotesWar22 quotesPolitics and Rebellion27 quotesAppearance and Reality22 quotesKingship15 quotesFamily16 quotesJealousy7 quotesDeath9 quotesCorruption15 quotesLanguage and Rhetoric15 quotesAmbition16 quotesFate9 quotesJustice13 quotesIdentity13 quotesRevenge and Forgiveness11 quotesWealth and Class8 quotesBetrayal10 quotesMarriage13 quotesConscience and Guilt10 quotesNature8 quotesImagination and Illusion5 quotesMadness5 quotes
Famous Lines, Explained
Single famous lines with the exact wording, who says it, the scene it comes from, and what it means.
‘I am not what I am.’Iago · Othello‘Men should be what they seem.’Iago · Othello‘O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on’Iago · Othello‘Even now, now, very now, an old black ram Is topping your white ewe.’Iago · Othello‘How now! a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!’Hamlet · Hamlet‘I’ll beat thee, but I should infect my hands.’Timon · Timon of Athens
Quotes drawn from all 37 plays. Each quote links to the play it comes from. Browse the plays →