Friday 14 July 2017

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.

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