Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
William Shakespeare
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
William Shakespeare
The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.
William Shakespeare
He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.
William Shakespeare
And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.
William Shakespeare
When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools.
William Shakespeare
There was a star danced, and under that was I born.
William Shakespeare
Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.
William Shakespeare
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
William Shakespeare
I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
William Shakespeare
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare
I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
William Shakespeare
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence.
William Shakespeare
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
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the godsThey kill us for their sport.
William Shakespeare
They do not love, that do not show their love.
William Shakespeare
Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.
William Shakespeare
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child
William Shakespeare
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
William Shakespeare
Excellent wretch Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.
William Shakespeare
Our doubts are traitors,And make us lose the good we oft might winBy fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him if stronger, spare thyself.
William Shakespeare
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
William Shakespeare
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.
William Shakespeare
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
William Shakespeare
Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
William Shakespeare
Though she be but little, she is fierce!
William Shakespeare
Give thy thoughts no tongue.
William Shakespeare
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
William Shakespeare
The attempt and not the deed Confounds us.
William Shakespeare
An overflow of good converts to bad.
William Shakespeare
A horse a horse my kingdom for a horse.
William Shakespeare
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
William Shakespeare
Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
William Shakespeare
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
William Shakespeare
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William Shakespeare
The rest is silence.
William Shakespeare
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
William Shakespeare
Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
William Shakespeare
He is winding the watch of his wit by and by it will strike.
William Shakespeare
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
William Shakespeare
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.
William Shakespeare
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare
Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.
William Shakespeare
For Brutus is an honourable man So are they all, all honourable men.
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Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.
William Shakespeare
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
William Shakespeare
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
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We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
William Shakespeare
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
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Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
William Shakespeare
I dote on his very absence.
William Shakespeare
Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
William Shakespeare
Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
William Shakespeare
