William Shakespeare quotes
Born
18 January 1882 Kilburn, London, England.
Died
31 January, 1956.
Occupation
Author.
William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist.
If music be the food of love, play on.
– William Shakespeare
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
– William Shakespeare
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
– William Shakespeare
Speak low, if you speak love.
– William Shakespeare
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
– William Shakespeare
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
– William Shakespeare
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
– William Shakespeare
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
– William Shakespeare
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
– William Shakespeare
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
– William Shakespeare
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
– William Shakespeare
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
– William Shakespeare
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
– William Shakespeare
I like not fair terms and a villain’s mind.
– William Shakespeare
I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.
– William Shakespeare
No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
– William Shakespeare
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
– William Shakespeare
Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
– William Shakespeare
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
– William Shakespeare
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
– William Shakespeare
Let no such man be trusted.
– William Shakespeare
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
– William Shakespeare
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
– William Shakespeare
Listen to many, speak to a few.
– 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
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
– William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did run smooth.
– William Shakespeare
So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
– William Shakespeare
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
– William Shakespeare
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
– William Shakespeare
The wheel is come full circle.
– William Shakespeare
God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
– William Shakespeare
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
– William Shakespeare
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
– William Shakespeare
I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
– William Shakespeare
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
– William Shakespeare
There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.
– 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
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
– William Shakespeare
Give thy thoughts no tongue.
– William Shakespeare
Farewell, fair cruelty.
– William Shakespeare
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
– William Shakespeare
Love is too young to know what conscience is.
– William Shakespeare
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
– William Shakespeare
The valiant never taste of death but once.
– William Shakespeare
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
– William Shakespeare
Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me..
– William Shakespeare
To do a great right do a little wrong.
– William Shakespeare
I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
– William Shakespeare
There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.
– William Shakespeare
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
– William Shakespeare
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
– William Shakespeare
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
– William Shakespeare
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
– William Shakespeare
It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.
– William Shakespeare
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
– William Shakespeare
Sweet mercy is nobility’s true badge.
– William Shakespeare
I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.
– William Shakespeare
But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.
– William Shakespeare
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
– William Shakespeare
Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
– 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
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
– William Shakespeare
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.
– William Shakespeare
I must be cruel, only to be kind.
– William Shakespeare
I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
– William Shakespeare
Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.
– William Shakespeare
Boldness be my friend.
– William Shakespeare
Exceeds man’s might: that dwells with the gods above.
– William Shakespeare
We are time’s subjects, and time bids be gone.
– William Shakespeare
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
– William Shakespeare
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
– William Shakespeare
An overflow of good converts to bad.
– William Shakespeare
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
– William Shakespeare
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
– William Shakespeare
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
– William Shakespeare
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
– William Shakespeare
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
– 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
How well he’s read, to reason against reading!
– 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
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
– 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
In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
– William Shakespeare
It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.
– William Shakespeare
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
– William Shakespeare
Now is the winter of our discontent.
– William Shakespeare
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
– William Shakespeare
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
– William Shakespeare
This above all; to thine own self be true.
– 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
Nothing can come of nothing.
– William Shakespeare
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
– William Shakespeare
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
– William Shakespeare
The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.
– William Shakespeare
There is no darkness but ignorance.
– William Shakespeare
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
– William Shakespeare
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
– William Shakespeare
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
– William Shakespeare
We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
– William Shakespeare
Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
– William Shakespeare
There’s many a man has more hair than wit.
– William Shakespeare
Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?
– William Shakespeare
O, had I but followed the arts!
– William Shakespeare
But men are men; the best sometimes forget.
– William Shakespeare