William Shakespeare's Quotes Collection (205 in 1)
1. A fool thinks himself to
be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
2. Some are born great,
some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
3. Love all, trust a few,
do wrong to none.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
4. 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's
Quote
5. The wheel is come full
circle.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
6. Expectation is the root
of all heartache.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
7. 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's
Quote
8. 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's
Quote
9. 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's
Quote
10. It is not in the stars
to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
11. As soon go kindle fire
with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
12. If music be the food of
love, play on.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
13. Absence from those we
love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
14. God has given you one
face, and you make yourself another.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
15. Hell is empty and all
the devils are here.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
16. Ignorance is the curse
of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
17. Better a witty fool than
a foolish wit.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
18. 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's
Quote
19. Better three hours too
soon than a minute too late.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
20. A peace is of the nature
of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party
loser.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
21. Cowards die many times
before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
22. When a father gives to
his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
23. The evil that men do
lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
24. But O, how bitter a
thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
25. 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's
Quote
26. Life is as tedious as
twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
27. A man loves the meat in
his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
28. An overflow of good
converts to bad.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
29. It is a wise father that
knows his own child.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
30. Love is a smoke made
with the fume of sighs.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
31. There is nothing either
good or bad but thinking makes it so.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
32. Listen to many, speak to
a few.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
33. The course of true love
never did run smooth.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
34. What's in a name? That
which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
35. Love to faults is always
blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks
all chains from every mind.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
36. Words without thoughts
never to heaven go.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
37. And oftentimes excusing
of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
38. Suspicion always haunts
the guilty mind.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
39. Alas, I am a woman
friendless, hopeless!
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
40. 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's
Quote
41. Our doubts are traitors
and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
42. Ambition should be made
of sterner stuff.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
43. How far that little
candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
44. Women may fall when
there's no strength in men.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
45. Boldness be my friend.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
46. Who could refrain that
had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
47. Fishes live in the sea,
as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
48. Love sought is good, but
given unsought, is better.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
49. Come, gentlemen, I hope
we shall drink down all unkindness.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
50. False face must hide
what the false heart doth know.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
51. Children wish fathers
looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked;
and either may be wrong.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
52. How poor are they that
have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
53. The empty vessel makes
the loudest sound.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
54. Give every man thy ear,
but few thy voice.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
55. Now, God be praised,
that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
56. This above all; to thine
own self be true.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
57. No legacy is so rich as
honesty.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
58. The lady doth protest
too much, methinks.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
59. As he was valiant, I
honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
60. Pleasure and action make
the hours seem short.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
61. But men are men; the
best sometimes forget.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
62. I am not bound to please
thee with my answer.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
63. I had rather have a fool
to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
64. I say there is no
darkness but ignorance.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
65. Let me embrace thee,
sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
66. Talking isn't doing. It
is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
67. Go to you bosom: Knock
there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
68. 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's
Quote
69. The undiscovered country
from whose bourn no traveler returns.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
70. Brevity is the soul of
wit.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
71. Faith, there hath been
many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
72. Love is not love that
alters when it alteration finds.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
73. Give thy thoughts no
tongue.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
74. Let every eye negotiate
for itself and trust no agent.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
75. 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's
Quote
76. In time we hate that
which we often fear.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
77. 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's
Quote
78. Give me my robe, put on
my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
79. 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's
Quote
80. One touch of nature makes
the whole world kin.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
81. The very substance of
the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
82. 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's
Quote
83. We know what we are, but
know not what we may be.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
84. For I can raise no money
by vile means.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
85. Having nothing, nothing
can he lose.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
86. Speak low, if you speak
love.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
87. The devil can cite
Scripture for his purpose.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
88. No, I will be the
pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
89. Reputation is an idle
and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
90. When we are born we cry
that we are come to this great stage of fools.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
91. As flies to wanton boys,
are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
92. How sharper than a
serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
93. 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's
Quote
94. 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's
Quote
95. Life every man holds
dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
96. By that sin fell the
angels.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
97. Poor and content is
rich, and rich enough.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
98. The robbed that smiles,
steals something from the thief.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
99. Things done well and
with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
100.
With
mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
101.Words, words, mere
words, no matter from the heart.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
102.
Good
night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night
till it be morrow.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
103.
Death
is a fearful thing.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
104.
Love
is too young to know what conscience is.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
·
thou
invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee
devil.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
105.
O!
Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be
mad!
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
106.
Suit
the action to the word, the word to the action.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
107.
The
golden age is before us, not behind us.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
108.
When
words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
109.
Desire
of having is the sin of covetousness.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
110.God hath given you one
face, and you make yourselves another.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
111. I will praise any man
that will praise me.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
112. Teach not thy lip such
scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
113. The love of heaven makes
one heavenly.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
114. The stroke of death is
as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
115. What's done can't be
undone.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
116. He that is giddy thinks
the world turns round.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
117. Heat not a furnace for
your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
118.It is the stars, The
stars above us, govern our conditions.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
119. When sorrows come, they
come not single spies, but in battalions.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
120.
I
wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
121. Maids want nothing but
husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
122.Modest doubt is called
the beacon of the wise.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
123.My crown is called
content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
124.There's no art to find
the mind's construction in the face.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
125.To do a great right do a
little wrong.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
126.What is past is
prologue.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
127.Men's vows are women's
traitors!
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
128.
The
lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
129.Uneasy lies the head
that wears a crown.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
130.
Fortune
brings in some boats that are not steered.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
131. He does it with better
grace, but I do it more natural.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
132.If it be a sin to covet
honor, I am the most offending soul.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
133.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's
Quote
134.Neither a borrower nor a
lender be.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
135.Some rise by sin, and
some by virtue fall.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
136.Farewell, fair cruelty.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
137.I dote on his very
absence.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
138.
Is
it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
139.Many a good hanging
prevents a bad marriage.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
140.
They
do not love that do not show their love.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
141. 'Tis one thing to be
tempted, another thing to fall.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
142.I was adored once too.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
143.If you have tears,
prepare to shed them now.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
144.Nothing can come of
nothing.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
145.The fashion of the world
is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
146.There is no darkness but
ignorance.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
147.There's many a man has
more hair than wit.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
148.
There's
place and means for every man alive.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
149.Time and the hour run
through the roughest day.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
150.
'Tis
not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
151. I see that the fashion
wears out more apparel than the man.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
152.He that loves to be
flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
153.I like not fair terms
and a villain's mind.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
154.I shall the effect of
this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
155.Lawless are they that
make their wills their law.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
156.Like as the waves make
towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
157.Mind your speech a
little lest you should mar your fortunes.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
158.
Our
peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
159.Such as we are made of,
such we be.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
160.
Sweet
are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a
precious jewel in his head.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
161. 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's
Quote
162.For my part, it was
Greek to me.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
163.How well he's read, to
reason against reading!
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
164.I bear a charmed life.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
165.I were better to be
eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
166.Let no such man be
trusted.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
167.Most dangerous is that
temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
168.
My
pride fell with my fortunes.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
169.Now is the winter of our
discontent.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
170.
O
God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this
world!
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
171. O' What may man within
him hide, though angel on the outward side!
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
172.O, had I but followed
the arts!
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
173.Praise us as we are
tasted, allow us as we prove.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
174.The attempt and not the
deed confounds us.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
175.There's not a note of
mine that's worth the noting.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
176.Things won are done,
joy's soul lies in the doing.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
177.'Tis best to weigh the
enemy more mighty than he seems.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
178.
Virtue
is bold, and goodness never fearful.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
179.What, man, defy the
devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
180.
I
never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
181.In a false quarrel there
is no true valor.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
182.
The
valiant never taste of death but once.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
183.
There
have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
184.
Truly,
I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
185.
Wisely,
and slow. They stumble that run fast.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
186.
Exceeds
man's might: that dwells with the gods above.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
187.
He
is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
188.
It
will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
189.
Lord,
Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
190.
Men
shut their doors against a setting sun.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
191. Nature hath framed
strange fellows in her time.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
192.O! for a muse of fire,
that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
193.O, what a goodly outside
falsehood hath!
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
194.So foul and fair a day I
have not seen.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
195.They say miracles are
past.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
196.'Tis better to bear the
ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
197.Use every man after his
desert, and who should scape whipping?
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
198.
We
are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
199.Where every something,
being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
200.
How
oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
201.
Sweet
mercy is nobility's true badge.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
202.
There
was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
203.
To
be, or not to be, that is the question.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
204.
Virtue
itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
205.
Well,
if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
-
William Shakespeare's
Quote
