Top 15 Most Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
— William Shakespeare
To be, or not to be that is the question.
— William Shakespeare
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
— William Shakespeare
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
— William Shakespeare
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.
— William Shakespeare
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
— William Shakespeare
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
— William Shakespeare
When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
— William Shakespeare
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
— William Shakespeare
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
— William Shakespeare
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
— William Shakespeare
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
— William Shakespeare
Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
— William Shakespeare
I would give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety.
— William Shakespeare
This above all; to thine own self be true.
— William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare Quotes about Life
I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
— William Shakespeare
Out, out, brief candle! 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.
— William Shakespeare
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
— William Shakespeare
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
— William Shakespeare
O excellent! I love long life better than figs.
— William Shakespeare
To be, or not to be, that is the question..
— William Shakespeare
This day I breathed first: time is come round, And where I did begin there shall I end; My life is run his compass.
— William Shakespeare
When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools.
— William Shakespeare
I bear a charmed life.
— William Shakespeare
It is silliness to live when to live is torment; and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.
— William Shakespeare
Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin’s fee.
— William Shakespeare
O gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial’s point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour.
— William Shakespeare
Thy life’s a miracle.
— William Shakespeare
That but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We’d jump the life to come.
— William Shakespeare
The sands are number’d that make up my life; Here must I stay, and here my life must end.
— William Shakespeare
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
— William Shakespeare
Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv’d a blessed time; for, from this instant, There’s nothing serious in mortality: All is but toys; renown, and grace is dead; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.
— William Shakespeare
So weary with disasters, tugg’d with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance, To mend, or be rid on’t.
— William Shakespeare
Her father lov’d me; oft invited me; Still question’d me the story of my life, From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes, That I have pass’d.
— William Shakespeare
And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe. And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.
— William Shakespeare
Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep.
— William Shakespeare
Life is a shuttle.
— William Shakespeare
And a man’s life’s no more than to say ‘One’.
— William Shakespeare
Let life be short: else shame will be too long.
— William Shakespeare
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..
— William Shakespeare
A man can die but once.
— William Shakespeare
We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
— William Shakespeare
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?.
— William Shakespeare
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.
— William Shakespeare
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
— William Shakespeare
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
— William Shakespeare
The time of life is short; to spend that shortness basely were too long.
— William Shakespeare
Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.
— William Shakespeare
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
— William Shakespeare
So wise so young, they say, never do live long.
— William Shakespeare
It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.
— William Shakespeare
By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.
— William Shakespeare
Though well we may not pass upon his life Without the form of justice, yet our power Shall do a courtesy to our wrath, which men May blame, but not control.
— William Shakespeare
There where my fortune lives, there my life dies.
— William Shakespeare
You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.
— William Shakespeare
Mine honour is my life; both grow in one: Take honour from me, and my life is done.
— William Shakespeare
Give that which gave thee life unto the worms.
— William Shakespeare
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, His acts being seven ages.
— William Shakespeare
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
— William Shakespeare
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
— William Shakespeare
Who will believe my verse in time to come, If it were filled with your most high deserts? Though yet heaven knows it is but as a tomb Which hides your life, and shows not half your parts.
— William Shakespeare
Your name from hence immortal life shall have, Though I, once gone, to all the world must die.
— William Shakespeare
I impair not beauty being mute, When others would give life, and bring a tomb. There lives more life in one of your fair eyes Than both your poets can in praise devise.
— William Shakespeare
Give my love fame faster than Time wastes life, So thou prevent’st his scythe and crooked knife.
— William Shakespeare
Life no longer than thy love will stay, For it depends upon that love of thine.
— William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare Quotes about Love
If music be the food of love, play on.
— William Shakespeare
There’s beggary in love that can be reckoned.
— William Shakespeare
Speak low if you speak love.
— William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did run smooth.
— William Shakespeare
Love goes by haps; Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
— William Shakespeare
The stroke of death is as a lovers pinch, Which hurts and is desired.
— William Shakespeare
She’s beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is woman, and therefore to be won.
— William Shakespeare
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
— William Shakespeare
Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, Did my heart fly at your service.
— William Shakespeare
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?.
— William Shakespeare
Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs.
— William Shakespeare
I love you more than words can wield the matter, Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty.
— William Shakespeare
Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by.
— William Shakespeare
The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.
— William Shakespeare
What is light, if Sylvia be not seen? What is joy if Sylvia be not by?.
— William Shakespeare
Love is blind, and lovers cannot see, The pretty follies that themselves commit.
— William Shakespeare
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
— William Shakespeare
Cupid is a knavish lad, thus to make females mad.
— William Shakespeare
Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy, That one short minute gives me in her sight.
— William Shakespeare
Doubt that the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move his aides, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.
— William Shakespeare
I would not wish any companion in the world but you.
— William Shakespeare
I pray you, do not fall in love with me, For I am falser than vows made in wine.
— William Shakespeare
Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love.
— William Shakespeare
Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties.
— William Shakespeare
Love hath made thee a tame snake.
— William Shakespeare
She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them.
— William Shakespeare
Oh, how this spring of love resembleth, The uncertain glory of an April day, Which now shows all beauty of the Sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away.
— William Shakespeare
I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster.
— William Shakespeare
Mistress, you know yourself, down on your knees, And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love.
— William Shakespeare
In thy youth wast as true a lover, As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow.
— William Shakespeare
A heart to love, and in that heart, Courage, to make’s love known.
— William Shakespeare
For where thou art, there is the world itself, And where thou art not, desolation.
— William Shakespeare
You cannot call it love, for at your age the heyday in the blood is tame.
— William Shakespeare
She will die if you love her not, And she will die ere she might make her love known.
— William Shakespeare
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
— William Shakespeare
Men’s vows are women’s traitors.
— William Shakespeare
Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof.
— William Shakespeare
Love will not be spurred to what it loathes.
— William Shakespeare
This bud of love by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.
— William Shakespeare
To be wise and love, Exceeds man’s might.
— William Shakespeare
They are in the very wrath of love, and they will go together. Clubs cannot part them.
— William Shakespeare
His unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.
— William Shakespeare
What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!.
— William Shakespeare
Is this the generation of love? Hot blood, hot thoughts and hot deeds? Why, they are vipers. Is love a generation of vipers?.
— William Shakespeare
Love is begun by time, And time qualifies the spark and fire of it.
— William Shakespeare
Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee, and when I love thee not, chaos is come again.
— William Shakespeare
Lovers ever run before the clock.
— William Shakespeare
I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip.
— William Shakespeare
I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say ‘I love you’.
— William Shakespeare
I’ll make my heaven in a lady’s lap.
— William Shakespeare
You have witchcraft in your lips.
— William Shakespeare
I humbly do beseech of your pardon, For too much loving you.
— William Shakespeare
Kiss me, Kate, we shall be married o’Sunday.
— William Shakespeare
I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me.
— William Shakespeare
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
Inspirational William Shakespeare Quotes On Success
Give every man thy ear but few thy voice.
— William Shakespeare
Love me or hate me, both are in my favor, if you love me, I’ll always be in your heart, if you hate me, I’ll always be in your mind.
— William Shakespeare
I always feel happy, you know why? Because I don’t expect anything from anyone, expectations always hurt. Life is short, so love your life, be happy and keep smiling.
— William Shakespeare
Have more than you show, speak less than you know.
— William Shakespeare
Just live for yourself and before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you pray, forgive. Before you hurt, feel. Before you hate, love. Before you quit, try. Before you die, live.
— William Shakespeare
To do a great right do a little wrong.
— William Shakespeare
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
— William Shakespeare
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
— William Shakespeare
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
— William Shakespeare
Always the wrong person gives you the right lesson in life.
— William Shakespeare
Knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
— William Shakespeare
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
— William Shakespeare
Time is very slow for those who wait. Very fast for those who are scared. Very long for those who celebrate. But for those who love, time is eternal.
— William Shakespeare
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
— William Shakespeare
If money go before, all ways do lie open.
— William Shakespeare
A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still gently allows you to grow.
— William Shakespeare
All the worlds 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.
— William Shakespeare
The eyes are the window to your soul.
— William Shakespeare
If to do were as easy to know what were good to do.
— William Shakespeare
Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind.
— William Shakespeare
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
— William Shakespeare
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
— William Shakespeare
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
— William Shakespeare
There is no darkness but ignorance.
— William Shakespeare
Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
— William Shakespeare
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, so do our minutes hasten to their end.
— William Shakespeare
Love cometh like sunshine after rain.
— William Shakespeare
Teach me how I should forget to think.
— William Shakespeare
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
— William Shakespeare
Make not your thoughts your prisons.
— William Shakespeare
To thine own self be true.
— William Shakespeare
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
— William Shakespeare
You are a lover. Borrow Cupid’s wings and soar with them above a common bound.
— William Shakespeare
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
— William Shakespeare
Don’t waste your love on somebody who doesn’t value it.
— William Shakespeare
Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
— William Shakespeare
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
— William Shakespeare
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
— William Shakespeare
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
— William Shakespeare
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
— William Shakespeare
They do not love that do not show their love.
— William Shakespeare
If we are true to ourselves, we cannot be false to anyone.
— William Shakespeare
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
— William Shakespeare
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
— William Shakespeare
In time we hate that which we often fear.
— William Shakespeare
God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.
— William Shakespeare
Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne’er be younger.
— William Shakespeare
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, his acts being seven ages.
— William Shakespeare
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
— William Shakespeare
More Inspirational William Shakespeare Quotes
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, his acts being seven ages.
— William Shakespeare
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. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
— William Shakespeare
This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is 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.
— William Shakespeare
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
— William Shakespeare
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
— William Shakespeare
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
— William Shakespeare
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
— William Shakespeare
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?
— William Shakespeare
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
— William Shakespeare
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
— William Shakespeare
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
— William Shakespeare
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
— William Shakespeare
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
— William Shakespeare
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
— William Shakespeare
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
— William Shakespeare
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
— William Shakespeare
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
— William Shakespeare
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
— William Shakespeare
When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
— William Shakespeare
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
— William Shakespeare
This above all; to thine own self be true.
— William Shakespeare
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
— William Shakespeare
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
— William Shakespeare
Though she be but little, she is fierce.
— William Shakespeare
Nothing can come of nothing.
— William Shakespeare
The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.
— William Shakespeare
Sweet mercy is nobility’s true badge.
— William Shakespeare
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
— William Shakespeare
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
— William Shakespeare
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
— William Shakespeare
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
— William Shakespeare
I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
— William Shakespeare
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
— William Shakespeare
Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.
— William Shakespeare
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
— William Shakespeare
Love is too young to know what conscience is.
— William Shakespeare
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
— William Shakespeare
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
— William Shakespeare
Farewell, fair cruelty.
— William Shakespeare
There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.
— William Shakespeare
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
— William Shakespeare
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
— William Shakespeare
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
— William Shakespeare
We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
— William Shakespeare
If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
— William Shakespeare
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes’ palaces.
— William Shakespeare
What’s done can’t be undone.
— William Shakespeare
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
— William Shakespeare
What is past is prologue.
— William Shakespeare
Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.
— William Shakespeare
O’ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
— William Shakespeare
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
— William Shakespeare
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
— William Shakespeare
Speak low, if you speak love.
— William Shakespeare
Brevity is the soul of wit.
— William Shakespeare
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
— William Shakespeare
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!
— William Shakespeare
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
— William Shakespeare
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
— William Shakespeare
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
— William Shakespeare
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
— William Shakespeare
It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.
— William Shakespeare
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
— William Shakespeare
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
— William Shakespeare
We are time’s subjects, and time bids be gone.
— William Shakespeare
O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
— William Shakespeare
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
— William Shakespeare
Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
— William Shakespeare
The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.
— William Shakespeare
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
— William Shakespeare
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
— William Shakespeare
I was adored once too.
— William Shakespeare
Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.
— William Shakespeare
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
— William Shakespeare
Listen to many, speak to a few. William
— Shakespeare
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
— William Shakespeare
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
— William Shakespeare
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
— William Shakespeare
Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
— William Shakespeare
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
— William Shakespeare
I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
— William Shakespeare
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
— William Shakespeare
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
— William Shakespeare
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
— William Shakespeare
Boldness be my friend.
— William Shakespeare
Give thy thoughts no tongue.
— William Shakespeare
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
— William Shakespeare
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
— William Shakespeare
There’s many a man has more hair than wit.
— William Shakespeare
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
— William Shakespeare
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
— William Shakespeare
Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?
— William Shakespeare
Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.
— William Shakespeare
Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
— William Shakespeare
Men’s vows are women’s traitors!
— William Shakespeare
I dote on his very absence.
— William Shakespeare
If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
— William Shakespeare
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
— William Shakespeare
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
— William Shakespeare
He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
— William Shakespeare
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.
— William Shakespeare
Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
— William Shakespeare
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
— William Shakespeare
Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.
— William Shakespeare
My pride fell with my fortunes.
— William Shakespeare
‘Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall. — William Shakespeare
‘Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
— William Shakespeare
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from… Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
— William Shakespeare
There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.
— William Shakespeare
If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
— William Shakespeare
Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
— William Shakespeare
Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
— William Shakespeare
An overflow of good converts to bad.
— William Shakespeare
It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.
— William Shakespeare
In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
— William Shakespeare
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
— William Shakespeare
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
— William Shakespeare
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
— William Shakespeare
He that loves to be flattered is worthy o’ the flatterer.
— William Shakespeare
Death is a fearful thing.
— William Shakespeare
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
— William Shakespeare
Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
— William Shakespeare
And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish’d from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish’d from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!
— William Shakespeare
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
— William Shakespeare
The wheel is come full circle.
— William Shakespeare
No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
— William Shakespeare
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
— William Shakespeare
Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
— William Shakespeare
I like not fair terms and a villain’s mind.
— William Shakespeare
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
— William Shakespeare
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
— William Shakespeare
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
— William Shakespeare
I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
— William Shakespeare
O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
— William Shakespeare
But men are men; the best sometimes forget.
— William Shakespeare
He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.
— William Shakespeare
Such as we are made of, such we be.
— William Shakespeare
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.
— William Shakespeare
‘Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
— William Shakespeare
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
— William Shakespeare
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
— William Shakespeare
But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.
— William Shakespeare
Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.
— William Shakespeare
By that sin fell the angels.
— William Shakespeare
The valiant never taste of death but once.
— William Shakespeare
Let no such man be trusted.
— William Shakespeare
The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
— William Shakespeare
They say miracles are past.
— William Shakespeare
I must be cruel, only to be kind.
— William Shakespeare
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
— William Shakespeare
Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.
— William Shakespeare
The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
— William Shakespeare
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
— William Shakespeare
I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
— William Shakespeare
Well, if Fortune be a woman, she’s a good wench for this gear.
— William Shakespeare
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
— William Shakespeare
What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he’s an enemy to mankind.
— William Shakespeare
There’s place and means for every man alive.
— William Shakespeare
As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
— William Shakespeare
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
— William Shakespeare
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
— William Shakespeare
Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.
— William Shakespeare
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
— William Shakespeare
Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
— William Shakespeare
I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.
— William Shakespeare
Exceeds man’s might: that dwells with the gods above.
— William Shakespeare
I will praise any man that will praise me.
— William Shakespeare
How well he’s read, to reason against reading!
— William Shakespeare
Now is the winter of our discontent.
— William Shakespeare
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.
— William Shakespeare
Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
— William Shakespeare
‘Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
— William Shakespeare
The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.
— William Shakespeare
So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
— William Shakespeare
I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
— William Shakespeare
For my part, it was Greek to me.
— William Shakespeare
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
— William Shakespeare
Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
— William Shakespeare
For I can raise no money by vile means.
— William Shakespeare
There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.
— William Shakespeare
God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
— William Shakespeare
There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
— William Shakespeare
Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
— William Shakespeare
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
— William Shakespeare
O, had I but followed the arts!
— William Shakespeare
I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.
— William Shakespeare
Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.
— William Shakespeare
