William Shakespeare Quotes

• Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
• A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
• It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
• We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
• When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
• No legacy is so rich as honesty.
• There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
• Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
• Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
• Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
• The course of true love never did run smooth.
• Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
• They do not love that do not show their love.
• Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
• Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
• Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
• Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
• Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
• Boldness be my friend.
• Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
• Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
• But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.
• To do a great right do a little wrong.
• Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
• I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
• Men's vows are women's traitors!
• Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
• Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
• How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
• How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
• The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
• Nothing can come of nothing.
• Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
• Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
• The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
• Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
• I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
• Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
• Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
• An overflow of good converts to bad.
• 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.
• Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
• What is past is prologue.
• I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
• They say miracles are past.
• I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
• Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
• There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.
• Farewell, fair cruelty.
• Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
• Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
• Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
• The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
• A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
• Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
• He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
• There's place and means for every man alive.
• Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
• Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
• How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
• There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
• When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great stage of fools.
• There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.
• Love is too young to know what conscience is.
• I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.
• My pride fell with my fortunes.
• When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
• There is no darkness but ignorance.
• Listen to many, speak to a few.
• And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
• Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
• Speak low, if you speak love.
• Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
• Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.
• As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
• Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
• Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
• I will praise any man that will praise me.
• In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
• Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
• Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.
• 'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
• When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
• For I can raise no money by vile means.
• A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.