SHAKESPEARE QUOTES ABOUT WOMEN

“Frailty, thy name is woman!” – Hamlet

“She is a woman, therefore may be wooed; she is a woman, therefore may be won.” – The Taming of the Shrew

“And though she be but little, she is fierce.” – A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!” – Antony and Cleopatra

“Women are angels, wooing: Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing.” – Troilus and Cressida

“Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.” – Romeo and Juliet

“How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that has such people in’t!” – The Tempest

“Women have been known to do strange things to impress a man.” – As You Like It

“Men’s vows are women’s traitors.” – Cymbeline

“O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!” – Romeo and Juliet

“Women’s constancy is like the Arabian phoenix: everyone swears it exists, but no one has seen it.” – The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players” – As You Like It

“When maidens sue, Men give like gods.” – The Winter’s Tale COMPREHENSION QUOTES

“I will not be a woman’s man, my lord.” – The Merchant of Venice

“She never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm i’ the bud, feed on her damask cheek.” – Twelfth Night

“O! how this mother swells up toward my heart; Hysterica passio, down thou climbing sorrow, Thy element’s below!” – King Lear

“But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.” – Romeo and Juliet

“Lovers ever run before the clock.” – Romeo and Juliet

“I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.” – The Merchant of Venice

“Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, But gold that’s put to use more gold begets.” – Venus and Adonis

“Woman is a dish for the gods, when they are weary of ambrosia.” – Antony and Cleopatra

“Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love.” – Antony and Cleopatra

“Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.” – Sonnet 116

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” – The Tempest