The Most Famous Quotes of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
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.
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words
Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
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.
If music be the food of love, play on.
And this, our
life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the
running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
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?
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
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.
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
An overflow of good converts to bad.
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless.
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
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.
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
Listen to many, speak to a few.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
This above all; to thine own self be true.
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.
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
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.
As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
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.
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
Give thy thoughts no tongue.
In time we hate that which we often fear.
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
For I can raise no money by vile means.
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
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.
Love is too young to know what conscience is.
Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.
By that sin fell the angels.
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
Speak low, if you speak love.
When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.
He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
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.
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
To do a great right do a little wrong.
What is past is prologue.
Death is a fearful thing.
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
I dote on his very absence.
I will praise any man that will praise me.
I will praise any man that will praise me.
No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
They do not love that do not show their love.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
There is no darkness but ignorance.
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
Men's vows are women's traitors!
What's done can't be undone.
I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
Nothing can come of nothing.
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.
How well he's read, to reason against reading!
I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.
Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
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