William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor. He is often called England’s national poet. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s greatest dramatist. Famous William Shakespeare quotes will touch your heart, brighten your soul and broaden your perspective.
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Best William Shakespeare Quotes
In time we hate that which we often fear. William Shakespeare
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. William Shakespeare
We are time’s subjects, and time bids be gone. William Shakespeare
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. William Shakespeare
All other doubts, by time let them be clear’d Fortune brings in some boats, that are not steered. William Shakespeare
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. William Shakespeare
A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. William Shakespeare
Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. William Shakespeare
Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughest day. William Shakespeare
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves. William Shakespeare
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? William Shakespeare
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. William Shakespeare
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear; seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come. William Shakespeare
Hell is empty and all the devils are here. William Shakespeare
There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered. William Shakespeare
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. William Shakespeare
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. William Shakespeare
We know what we are, but not what we may be. William Shakespeare
You speak an infinite deal of nothing. William Shakespeare
Summer’s lease hath all too short a date. William Shakespeare
Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find. William Shakespeare
And nothing gainst Time’s scythe can make defence; Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence. William Shakespeare
Though she be but little, she is fierce! William Shakespeare
Many a man his life hath sold but my outside to behold. Gilded tombs do worms enfold. William Shakespeare
My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break. William Shakespeare
What’s past is prologue. William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did run smooth. William Shakespeare
One fairer than my love! The all seeing sun ne’er saw her match since first the world begun. William Shakespeare
Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires. William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did run smooth. William Shakespeare
I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it. William Shakespeare
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. William Shakespeare
Don’t waste your love on somebody, who doesn’t value it. William Shakespeare
A lover’s eyes will gaze an eagle blind. A lover’s ear will hear the lowest sound. William Shakespeare
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. William Shakespeare
And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays. William Shakespeare
Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t. William Shakespeare
Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like a thorn. William Shakespeare
Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night. William Shakespeare
What’s mine is yours, and what is yours is mine. William Shakespeare
For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo. William Shakespeare
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove O no! it is an ever fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken. William Shakespeare
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o er wrought heart and bids it break. William Shakespeare
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite. William Shakespeare
Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change. William Shakespeare
Love sought is good, but given unsought better. William Shakespeare
Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake its everything except what it is! William Shakespeare
They do not love that do not show their love. Wlliam Shakespeare
One may smile, and smile, and be a villain. William Shakespeare
Journeys end in lovers meeting, every wise man’s son doth know. William Shakespeare
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. 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
They do not love that do not show their love. 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
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world. William Shakespeare
No legacy is so rich as honesty. William Shakespeare
The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers. William Shakespeare
We know what we are, but know not what we may be. William Shakespeare
Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings. William Shakespeare
This above all; to thine own self be true. William Shakespeare
Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me. William Shakespeare
For there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. William Shakespeare
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. William Shakespeare
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself. William Shakespeare
And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays. William Shakespeare
Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools. William Shakespeare
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. 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. William Shakespeare
When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools. William Shakespeare
Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing. William Shakespeare
When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions! William Shakespeare
Life is as tedious as twice told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. William Shakespeare
I do love nothing in the world so well as you is not that strange? William Shakespeare
Life every man holds dear; but the brave man holds honor far more precious dear than life. William Shakespeare
I am not bound to please thee with my answers. William Shakespeare
We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep. William Shakespeare
If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking and you beat love down. William Shakespeare
I do desire we may be better strangers. William Shakespeare
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact. William Shakespeare
You are not worth another word else I’d call you knave. William Shakespeare
Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. William Shakespeare
In his brain which is as dry as the remainder biscuit after a voyage he hath strange places crammed with observation, the which he vents in mangled forms. William Shakespeare
So wise so young, they say, do never live long. William Shakespeare
He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him. William Shakespeare
Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall. William Shakespeare
I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine. Besides, I like you not. William Shakespeare
For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me? William Shakespeare
I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me. William Shakespeare
I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum. William Shakespeare
There’s many a man has more hair than wit. William Shakespeare
When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married. William Shakespeare
Thou sodden witted lord! Thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows. William Shakespeare
False face must hide what the false heart doth know. William Shakespeare
