William Shakespeare
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William ShakespeareA man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
William ShakespeareA peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
William ShakespeareAbsence from those we love is self from self – a deadly banishment.
William ShakespeareAlas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
William ShakespeareAll 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 ShakespeareAmbition should be made of sterner stuff.
William ShakespeareAn overflow of good converts to bad.
William ShakespeareAnd oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
William ShakespeareAnd this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William ShakespeareAs flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
William ShakespeareAs he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
William ShakespeareAs soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
William ShakespeareBe not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William ShakespeareBeing born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
William ShakespeareBetter a witty fool than a foolish wit.
William ShakespeareBetter three hours too soon than a minute too late.
William ShakespeareBoldness be my friend.
William ShakespeareBrevity is the soul of wit.
William ShakespeareBut men are men; the best sometimes forget.
William ShakespeareBut O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
William ShakespeareBy that sin fell the angels.
William ShakespeareChildren wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
William ShakespeareCome, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
William ShakespeareCowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
William ShakespeareDeath is a fearful thing.
William ShakespeareDesire of having is the sin of covetousness.
William ShakespeareEveryone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
William ShakespeareExceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.
William ShakespeareExpectation is the root of all heartache.
William ShakespeareFaith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
William ShakespeareFalse face must hide what the false heart doth know.
William ShakespeareFarewell, fair cruelty.
William ShakespeareFishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
William ShakespeareFor I can raise no money by vile means.
William ShakespeareFor my part, it was Greek to me.
William ShakespeareFortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
William ShakespeareGive every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
William ShakespeareGive me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
William ShakespeareGive thy thoughts no tongue.
William ShakespeareGo to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
William ShakespeareGod has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
William ShakespeareGod hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
William ShakespeareHaving nothing, nothing can he lose.
William ShakespeareHe does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.
William ShakespeareHe is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
William ShakespeareHe that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
William ShakespeareHe that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.
William ShakespeareHeat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
William ShakespeareHell is empty and all the devils are here.
William ShakespeareHow far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world.
William ShakespeareHow oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
William ShakespeareHow poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William ShakespeareHow sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
William ShakespeareHow well he's read, to reason against reading!
William ShakespeareI am not bound to please thee with my answer.
William ShakespeareI bear a charmed life.
William ShakespeareI dote on his very absence.
William ShakespeareI had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
William ShakespeareI hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
William ShakespeareI like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
William ShakespeareI 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 ShakespeareI never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.
William ShakespeareI say there is no darkness but ignorance.
William ShakespeareI see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
William ShakespeareI shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
William ShakespeareI was adored once too.
William ShakespeareI wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
William ShakespeareI were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
William ShakespeareI will praise any man that will praise me.
William ShakespeareIf it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
William ShakespeareIf music be the food of love, play on.
William ShakespeareIf 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 ShakespeareIf 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 ShakespeareIf you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
William ShakespeareIf you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
William ShakespeareIf 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 ShakespeareIgnorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William ShakespeareIn a false quarrel there is no true valor.
William ShakespeareIn time we hate that which we often fear.
William ShakespeareIs it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
William ShakespeareIt is a wise father that knows his own child.
William ShakespeareIt is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
William ShakespeareIt is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
William ShakespeareIt is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.
William ShakespeareIt will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.
William ShakespeareLawless are they that make their wills their law.
William ShakespeareLet every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
William ShakespeareLet me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
William ShakespeareLet no such man be trusted.
William ShakespeareLife every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
William ShakespeareLife is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William ShakespeareLife'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 ShakespeareLike as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.
William ShakespeareListen to many, speak to a few.
William ShakespeareLord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
William ShakespeareLove all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William ShakespeareLove is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
William ShakespeareLove is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
William ShakespeareLove is too young to know what conscience is.
William ShakespeareLove sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
William ShakespeareLove to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
William ShakespeareMaids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.
William ShakespeareMany a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
William ShakespeareMen 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 ShakespeareMen shut their doors against a setting sun.
William ShakespeareMen's vows are women's traitors!
William ShakespeareMind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.
William ShakespeareModest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
William ShakespeareMost dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
William ShakespeareMy crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
William ShakespeareMy pride fell with my fortunes.
William ShakespeareNature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
William ShakespeareNeither a borrower nor a lender be.
William ShakespeareNo legacy is so rich as honesty.
William ShakespeareNo, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
William ShakespeareNothing can come of nothing.
William ShakespeareNow is the winter of our discontent.
William ShakespeareNow, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
William ShakespeareO God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
William ShakespeareO thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
William ShakespeareO, had I but followed the arts!
William ShakespeareO, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
William ShakespeareO! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
William ShakespeareO! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
William ShakespeareO' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
William ShakespeareOne touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William ShakespeareOur doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William ShakespeareOur peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
William ShakespeareParting is such sweet sorrow.
William ShakespearePleasure and action make the hours seem short.
William ShakespearePoor and content is rich, and rich enough.
William ShakespearePraise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
William ShakespeareReputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
William ShakespeareSo foul and fair a day I have not seen.
William ShakespeareSome are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William ShakespeareSome rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
William ShakespeareSpeak low, if you speak love.
William ShakespeareSuch as we are made of, such we be.
William ShakespeareSuit the action to the word, the word to the action.
William ShakespeareSuspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
William ShakespeareSweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
William ShakespeareSweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
William ShakespeareTalking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
William ShakespeareTeach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
William ShakespeareTemptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.
William ShakespeareThe attempt and not the deed confounds us.
William ShakespeareThe course of true love never did run smooth.
William ShakespeareThe devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
William ShakespeareThe empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
William ShakespeareThe evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
William ShakespeareThe fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
William ShakespeareThe golden age is before us, not behind us.
William ShakespeareThe lady doth protest too much, methinks.
William ShakespeareThe love of heaven makes one heavenly.
William ShakespeareThe lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
William ShakespeareThe man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
William ShakespeareThe 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 ShakespeareThe object of art is to give life a shape.
William ShakespeareThe robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
William ShakespeareThe stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
William ShakespeareThe undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.
William ShakespeareThe valiant never taste of death but once.
William ShakespeareThe very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
William ShakespeareThe wheel is come full circle.
William ShakespeareThere have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
William ShakespeareThere 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 ShakespeareThere is no darkness but ignorance.
William ShakespeareThere is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
William ShakespeareThere was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
William ShakespeareThere's many a man has more hair than wit.
William ShakespeareThere's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
William ShakespeareThere's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.
William ShakespeareThere's place and means for every man alive.
William ShakespeareThey do not love that do not show their love.
William ShakespeareThey say miracles are past.
William ShakespeareThings done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
William ShakespeareThings won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
William ShakespeareThis above all; to thine own self be true.
William ShakespeareTime and the hour run through the roughest day.
William Shakespeare‘Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
William Shakespeare‘Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
William Shakespeare‘Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
William Shakespeare‘Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
William ShakespeareTo be, or not to be: that is the question.
William ShakespeareTo do a great right do a little wrong.
William ShakespeareTo thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
William ShakespeareTruly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
William ShakespeareUneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
William ShakespeareUse every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?
William ShakespeareVirtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
William ShakespeareVirtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
William ShakespeareWe are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
William ShakespeareWe 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 ShakespeareWe know what we are, but know not what we may be.
William ShakespeareWell, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
William ShakespeareWhat 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 ShakespeareWhat is past is prologue.
William ShakespeareWhat, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.
William ShakespeareWhat's done can't be undone.
William ShakespeareWhat's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
William ShakespeareWhen a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
William ShakespeareWhen sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
William ShakespeareWhen we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
William ShakespeareWhen words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
William ShakespeareWhere every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.
William ShakespeareWho could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
William ShakespeareWisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
William ShakespeareWith mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
William ShakespeareWomen may fall when there's no strength in men.
William ShakespeareWords without thoughts never to heaven go.
William ShakespeareWords, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
William Shakespeare