William Shakespeare (bapt. 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s greatest dramatist. He is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon” (or simply “the Bard”). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. They also continue to be studied and reinterpreted. See more.
William Shakespeare quote on Results
Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
William Shakespeare quote on Love
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
William Shakespeare quote on Gods, Man
Exceeds man’s might: that dwells with the gods above.
William Shakespeare quote on Men, Faith, People
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.
William Shakespeare quote on Covetousness, Desire, Sin
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
William Shakespeare quote on Heart
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
William Shakespeare quote on Men, Sea
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
William Shakespeare quote on Fool, Wit, Witty
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
William Shakespeare quote on Men, Old, Vice
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
William Shakespeare quote on Love, Trust, Wrong
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare quote on Husbands, Nothing, Want
Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.
William Shakespeare quote on Men, April, December, May, Sky, Wives
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 on Mind, Speech
Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.
William Shakespeare quote on Death, Cowards, Taste
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare quote on Greatness
Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare quote on Love, Fire, Snow, Words
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
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As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
William Shakespeare quote on Gods, Boys, Flies
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
William Shakespeare quote on Love, Conscience
Love is too young to know what conscience is.
William Shakespeare quote on Hope, Gentlemen, Unkindness
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
William Shakespeare quote on Being, Nothing
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 on Soul, Joy, Lies
Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.
William Shakespeare quote on Time, Day
Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
William Shakespeare quote on Enemy
‘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 on Help, Support
‘Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
William Shakespeare quote on Life, Books, Brooks, Public, Running, Sermons, Trees
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 on Worth
There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.
William Shakespeare quote on Day, Man, Night, Self
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 quote on Honesty, Man, Will
Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
William Shakespeare quote on Man
Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?
William Shakespeare quote on Virtue, Goodness
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
William Shakespeare quote on Life, Men, Fortune, Now, Sea
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 on Darkness, Ignorance
There is no darkness but ignorance.
William Shakespeare quote on Nothing, Thinking
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare quote on Woman
There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
William Shakespeare quote on Children, Eyes, Fathers, Judgment, May, Wrong
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
William Shakespeare quote on Men, Forget
But men are men; the best sometimes forget.
William Shakespeare quote on Hair, Man, Wit
There’s many a man has more hair than wit.
William Shakespeare quote on Boats, Fortune
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
William Shakespeare quote on Art, Mind
There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.
William Shakespeare quote on Love, Blind, Faults, Joy, Mind
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 on Happiness, Eyes, Man
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.
William Shakespeare quote on Stars
It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.
William Shakespeare quote on Content, Kings
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
William Shakespeare quote on Destiny, Stars
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare quote on Trust, Eye
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
William Shakespeare quote on Fool, Man
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare quote on Age, Man, Youth
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
William Shakespeare quote on Nature, Peace, Conquest, Party
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
William Shakespeare quote on Love, Absence, Self
Absence from those we love is self from self – a deadly banishment.
William Shakespeare quote on Fear, Care
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
William Shakespeare quote on Virtue, Sin, Temptation
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
William Shakespeare quote on Men, Time, Women, Being, Man, World
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 on Love
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
William Shakespeare quote on Fortune, Woman
Well, if Fortune be a woman, she’s a good wench for this gear.
William Shakespeare quote on Work, God, Action, Infinite, Man, Reason
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 quote on Devil, Enemy, Man, Mankind
What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he’s an enemy to mankind.
William Shakespeare quote on Name
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
William Shakespeare quote on Father, Son
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
William Shakespeare quote on Blood, Will
It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.
William Shakespeare quote on Fools
When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
William Shakespeare quote on Fault
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
William Shakespeare quote on End
Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.
William Shakespeare quote on Life, Nothing, Poor, Shadow, Sound, Walking
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 on Life, Man
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William Shakespeare quote on Life, Honor, Man
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
William Shakespeare quote on Men, Adversity
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
William Shakespeare Quote
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
William Shakespeare quote on Adversity, Ugly
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
William Shakespeare quote on Greatness
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare quote on Virtue, Sin
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
William Shakespeare quote on Contempt, Lady, Kissing
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
William Shakespeare quote on Mind, Suspicion
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
William Shakespeare quote on Deed, Deeds, Talking, Words
Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
William Shakespeare quote on Merit, Reputation
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare quote on Action, Word
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
William Shakespeare quote on Praise
Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
William Shakespeare quote on Content, Poor
Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.
William Shakespeare quote on Action, Pleasure
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
William Shakespeare quote on Peace, Mountains
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
William Shakespeare Quote
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare quote on Nature, World
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare quote on Man, May
O’ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
William Shakespeare quote on Heaven, Temper
O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
William Shakespeare quote on Death
The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.
William Shakespeare quote on Fire, Heaven, Invention
O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
William Shakespeare quote on Country
The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.
William Shakespeare quote on Apparel, Fashion, Man
I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
William Shakespeare quote on Heart, Words
Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
William Shakespeare quote on Thoughts, Heaven, Words
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare quote on Men, Women, Strength, May
Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.
William Shakespeare quote on Laughter, Mirth, Old
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
William Shakespeare quote on Love, Heart, Courage
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
William Shakespeare quote on Being, Nothing
Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.
William Shakespeare quote on Words
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
William Shakespeare quote on Men, People
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.
William Shakespeare quote on Company
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 quote on Death, Taste
The valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare quote on Devil, Name, Spirit, Wine
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
William Shakespeare quote on Smiles
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
William Shakespeare quote on Music, Man
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 on Imagination
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
William Shakespeare quote on Lady, Protest
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
William Shakespeare quote on Fashion, World
The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
William Shakespeare quote on Men, Evil
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
William Shakespeare quote on Purpose, Devil, Scripture
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
William Shakespeare quote on Dream, Shadow
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
William Shakespeare Quote
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
William Shakespeare quote on Father, Daughter, Living, May, Will
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 on Man, Play, World
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 on Experience, Travel, Fool
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
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!
William Shakespeare quote on Poor
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William Shakespeare quote on Deeds, Sight
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
William Shakespeare Quote
He that loves to be flattered is worthy o’ the flatterer.
William Shakespeare quote on Will, Wit
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
William Shakespeare quote on Grace
He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.
William Shakespeare quote on God
God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
William Shakespeare quote on God
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
William Shakespeare quote on Heart
Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
William Shakespeare quote on God
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
William Shakespeare Quote
Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
William Shakespeare quote on Deed, World
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
William Shakespeare quote on Time, Fear, Hate
In time we hate that which we often fear.
William Shakespeare quote on Darkness, Ignorance
I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
William Shakespeare quote on God, Comfort, Darkness, Despair, Light, Now
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
William Shakespeare quote on Discontent, Now, Winter
Now is the winter of our discontent.
William Shakespeare quote on Nothing, Patience, Will
No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
William Shakespeare quote on Nature, Time
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
William Shakespeare quote on Thinking
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare quote on Performance, Desire, Years
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
William Shakespeare quote on Quarrel, Valor
In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
William Shakespeare quote on God, Knowledge, Heaven, Ignorance
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William Shakespeare quote on Man, Praise, Will
I will praise any man that will praise me.
William Shakespeare quote on Heart, Effect
I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
William Shakespeare quote on Death, Nothing
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
William Shakespeare quote on Poison, Revenge, Wrong
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 on Soul, Honor, Sin
If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
William Shakespeare quote on Food, Music, Love, Play
If music be the food of love, play on.
William Shakespeare quote on Men, Churches, Poor
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 on Men, Country, Honor, Loss
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 on Time, Will
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 quote on Now, Tears
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
William Shakespeare quote on Time, Now, Waste
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
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