A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
- William Shakespeare Quote
A friend i'the court is better than a penny in purse.
- William Shakespeare Quote
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
- William Shakespeare Quote
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 Quote
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
- William Shakespeare Quote
An overflow of good converts to bad.
- William Shakespeare Quote
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
- William Shakespeare Quote
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 Quote
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
- William Shakespeare Quote
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
- William Shakespeare Quote
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Boldness be my friend.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Brevity is the soul of wit.
- William Shakespeare Quote
But men are men; the best sometimes forget.
- William Shakespeare Quote
By that sin fell the angels.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Death is a fearful thing.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
- William Shakespeare Quote
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Farewell, fair cruelty.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
- William Shakespeare Quote
For I can raise no money by vile means.
- William Shakespeare Quote
For my part, it was Greek to me.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Give thy thoughts no tongue.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
- William Shakespeare Quote
God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
- William Shakespeare Quote
He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.
- William Shakespeare Quote
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
- William Shakespeare Quote
He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
- William Shakespeare Quote
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world.
- William Shakespeare Quote
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
- William Shakespeare Quote
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
- William Shakespeare Quote
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
- William Shakespeare Quote
How well he's read, to reason against reading!
- William Shakespeare Quote
I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
- William Shakespeare Quote
I bear a charmed life.
- William Shakespeare Quote
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
- William Shakespeare Quote
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 Quote
I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
- William Shakespeare Quote
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 Quote
I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.
- William Shakespeare Quote
I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
- William Shakespeare Quote
I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
- William Shakespeare Quote
I was adored once too.
- William Shakespeare Quote
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
- William Shakespeare Quote
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
- William Shakespeare Quote
I will praise any man that will praise me.
- William Shakespeare Quote
If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
- William Shakespeare Quote
If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken and so die.
- William Shakespeare Quote
If music be the food of love, play on.
- William Shakespeare Quote
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 Quote
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 Quote
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
- William Shakespeare Quote
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 Quote
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
- William Shakespeare Quote
In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
- William Shakespeare Quote
In time we hate that which we often fear.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
- William Shakespeare Quote
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare Quote
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare Quote
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
- William Shakespeare Quote
It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Let no such man be trusted.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
- William Shakespeare Quote
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 Quote
Listen to many, speak to a few.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
- William Shakespeare Quote
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Love is too young to know what conscience is.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
- William Shakespeare Quote
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 Quote
Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Men's vows are women's traitors!
- William Shakespeare Quote
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
- William Shakespeare Quote
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
- William Shakespeare Quote
My pride fell with my fortunes.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
- William Shakespeare Quote
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
- William Shakespeare Quote
No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Nothing can come of nothing.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
- William Shakespeare Quote
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
- William Shakespeare Quote
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
- William Shakespeare Quote
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
- William Shakespeare Quote
O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
- William Shakespeare Quote
O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
- William Shakespeare Quote
O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
- William Shakespeare Quote
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
- William Shakespeare Quote
So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Speak low, if you speak love.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Such as we are made of, such we be.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.
- William Shakespeare Quote
The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
- William Shakespeare Quote
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare Quote
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
- William Shakespeare Quote
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
- William Shakespeare Quote
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
- William Shakespeare Quote
The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
- William Shakespeare Quote
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
- William Shakespeare Quote
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
- William Shakespeare Quote
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
- William Shakespeare Quote
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
- William Shakespeare Quote
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 Quote
The object of art is to give life a shape.
- William Shakespeare Quote
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
- William Shakespeare Quote
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
- William Shakespeare Quote
The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.
- William Shakespeare Quote
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare Quote
The wheel is come full circle.
- William Shakespeare Quote
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
- William Shakespeare Quote
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 Quote
There is no darkness but ignorance.
- William Shakespeare Quote
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare Quote
There's many a man has more hair than wit.
- William Shakespeare Quote
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
- William Shakespeare Quote
There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.
- William Shakespeare Quote
There's place and means for every man alive.
- William Shakespeare Quote
They do not love that do not show their love.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
- William Shakespeare Quote
This above all; to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
- William Shakespeare Quote
'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
- William Shakespeare Quote
'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
- William Shakespeare Quote
'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
- William Shakespeare Quote
'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
- William Shakespeare Quote
To be, or not to be: that is the question.
- William Shakespeare Quote
To do a great right do a little wrong.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?
- William Shakespeare Quote
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
- William Shakespeare Quote
We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
- William Shakespeare Quote
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 Quote
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
- William Shakespeare Quote
What is past is prologue.
- William Shakespeare Quote
What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.
- William Shakespeare Quote
What's done can't be undone.
- William Shakespeare Quote
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
- William Shakespeare Quote
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare Quote
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
- William Shakespeare Quote
When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
- William Shakespeare Quote
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
- William Shakespeare Quote
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
- William Shakespeare Quote
Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
- William Shakespeare Quote
