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
