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