William Shakespeare

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

— William Shakespeare

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

— William Shakespeare

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

— William Shakespeare

We are such stuffIs rounded with a sleep.

— William Shakespeare

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

— William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love, play on.

— William Shakespeare

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me;

— William Shakespeare

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

— William Shakespeare

In time we hate that which we often fear.

— William Shakespeare

I bear a charmed life.

— William Shakespeare

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

— William Shakespeare

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

— William Shakespeare

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

— William Shakespeare

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

— William Shakespeare

I dote on his very absence.

— 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

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

— William Shakespeare

Men's vows are women's traitors!

— William Shakespeare

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

— William Shakespeare

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

— William Shakespeare

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

— William Shakespeare

Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.

— William Shakespeare

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

— William Shakespeare

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

— William Shakespeare

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

— William Shakespeare

My pride fell with my fortunes.

— William Shakespeare

Death is a fearful thing.

— William Shakespeare

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

— William Shakespeare

Make death proud to take us.

— William Shakespeare

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

— William Shakespeare

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

— William Shakespeare

Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff;

— William Shakespeare

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

— William Shakespeare

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

— William Shakespeare

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

— William Shakespeare

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

— William Shakespeare

Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.

— William Shakespeare

For my part, it was Greek to me.

— William Shakespeare

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

— William Shakespeare

There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.

— William Shakespeare

One pain is lessened by another’s anguish. ... Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.

— William Shakespeare

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

— William Shakespeare

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

— William Shakespeare

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

— William Shakespeare

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

— William Shakespeare

As an unperfect actor on the stage,

— William Shakespeare

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

— William Shakespeare

I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.

— William Shakespeare

Our revels now are ended. These our actors,

— William Shakespeare

But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time’s fool,

— 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

O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!

— William Shakespeare

Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.

— William Shakespeare

There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st

— William Shakespeare

Brevity is the soul of wit.

— William Shakespeare

O, here

— William Shakespeare

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

— William Shakespeare

When I do count the clock that tells the time,

— William Shakespeare

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,

— William Shakespeare

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

— William Shakespeare

And will 'a not come again?

— William Shakespeare

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,

— William Shakespeare

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

— William Shakespeare

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

— William Shakespeare

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

— William Shakespeare

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

— William Shakespeare

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

— William Shakespeare

Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now;

— William Shakespeare

Where is Polonius?

— William Shakespeare

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

— William Shakespeare

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

— William Shakespeare

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

— William Shakespeare

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

— William Shakespeare

To do a great right do a little wrong.

— 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

Fondling,' she saith, 'since I have hemm'd thee here

— William Shakespeare

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

— 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

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

— William Shakespeare

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

— William Shakespeare

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

— William Shakespeare

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

— William Shakespeare

Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;

— William Shakespeare

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

— William Shakespeare

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

— William Shakespeare

Sweets to the sweet, farewell! I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet’s wife; I thought thy bride-bed to have decked, sweet maid, And not have strewed thy grave.

— William Shakespeare

Such as we are made of, such we be.

— William Shakespeare

Of all the wonders that I have heard,

— William Shakespeare

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

— William Shakespeare

There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)

— William Shakespeare

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

— William Shakespeare

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is 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

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

— 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! (Act 1, scene 1)

— William Shakespeare

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

— William Shakespeare

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

— William Shakespeare

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

— William Shakespeare

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

— William Shakespeare

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

— William Shakespeare

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

— William Shakespeare

Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.

— William Shakespeare

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

— William Shakespeare

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;

— William Shakespeare

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

— William Shakespeare

Too much of water hast thou poor Ophelia, and therefore I forbid my tears.

— William Shakespeare

There's many a man has more hair than wit.

— William Shakespeare

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

— William Shakespeare

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

— William Shakespeare

For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel:

— William Shakespeare

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

— William Shakespeare

A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as the schoolboy on his way to school. (Act 2, scene 2)

— William Shakespeare

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

— William Shakespeare

For I can raise no money by vile means.

— William Shakespeare

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

— William Shakespeare

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

— William Shakespeare

The wheel is come full circle.

— William Shakespeare

Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come

— William Shakespeare

Listen to many, speak to a few.

— William Shakespeare

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

— William Shakespeare

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

— William Shakespeare

agar vaght ra talaf konid zamani fara miresad ke vaght shoma ra talaf mikonad.

— William Shakespeare

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

— William Shakespeare

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

— William Shakespeare

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

— William Shakespeare

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

— William Shakespeare

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

— William Shakespeare

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

— William Shakespeare

I bear a charmed life.

— 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

My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king.

— William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love, play on.

— William Shakespeare

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

— William Shakespeare

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

— William Shakespeare

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

— William Shakespeare

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

— William Shakespeare

So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

— William Shakespeare

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

— William Shakespeare

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

— William Shakespeare

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

— William Shakespeare

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

— William Shakespeare

Men must endure

— William Shakespeare

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

— William Shakespeare

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

— William Shakespeare

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

— William Shakespeare

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

— William Shakespeare

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

— William Shakespeare

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

— William Shakespeare

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

— William Shakespeare

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

— William Shakespeare

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

— William Shakespeare

The course of true love never did run smooth.

— William Shakespeare

To do a great right do a little wrong.

— William Shakespeare

He that is thy friend indeed,

— William Shakespeare

Brevity is the soul of wit.

— William Shakespeare

La vida es mi tortura y la muerte será mi descanso.

— William Shakespeare

Love is not love which alters it when 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; it is the star to every wandering bark whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out, even to the edge of doom.

— William Shakespeare

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

— William Shakespeare

This above all; to thine own self be true.

— William Shakespeare

But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time’s fool,

— William Shakespeare

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

— William Shakespeare

Boldness be my friend.

— William Shakespeare

I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.

— William Shakespeare

This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.

— William Shakespeare

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

— William Shakespeare

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

— William Shakespeare

To be, or not to be: that is the question:

— William Shakespeare

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

— William Shakespeare

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

— William Shakespeare

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

— 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

When time is old ⟨and⟩ hath forgot itself,

— William Shakespeare

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

— William Shakespeare

But thoughts, the slave of life, and life, time’s fool,

— William Shakespeare

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

— 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

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

— William Shakespeare

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

— William Shakespeare

O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

— William Shakespeare

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

— 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

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

— William Shakespeare

Farewell, fair cruelty.

— William Shakespeare

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

— William Shakespeare

There is no darkness but ignorance.

— William Shakespeare

I must be cruel, only to be kind.

— William Shakespeare

Nothing can come of nothing.

— William Shakespeare

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

— William Shakespeare

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

— 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

By that sin fell the angels.

— William Shakespeare

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

— William Shakespeare

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.

— William Shakespeare

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

— William Shakespeare

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

— William Shakespeare

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

— William Shakespeare

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

— William Shakespeare

I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

— 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

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

— William Shakespeare

Men's vows are women's traitors!

— William Shakespeare

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

— William Shakespeare

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

— William Shakespeare

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

— William Shakespeare

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

— 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

O know, sweet love, I always write of you,

— William Shakespeare

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

— William Shakespeare

My pride fell with my fortunes.

— William Shakespeare

The evil that men do lives after them;

— William Shakespeare

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!

— William Shakespeare

O my love, my wife!

— William Shakespeare

O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!

— William Shakespeare

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

— William Shakespeare

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.

— William Shakespeare

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

— William Shakespeare

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

— William Shakespeare

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

— William Shakespeare

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

— William Shakespeare

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

— William Shakespeare

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

— William Shakespeare

Speak low, if you speak love.

— William Shakespeare

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

— William Shakespeare

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

— William Shakespeare

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

— William Shakespeare

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

— 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

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,

— William Shakespeare

But that I know love is begun by time,

— William Shakespeare

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,

— William Shakespeare

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

— William Shakespeare

O, how this spring of love resembleth

— William Shakespeare

Let no such man be trusted.

— William Shakespeare

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

— 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

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

— William Shakespeare

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

— William Shakespeare

Full fathom five thy father lies;

— William Shakespeare

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

— William Shakespeare

Eyes, look your last!

— William Shakespeare

These are the ushers of Martius: before him

— William Shakespeare

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

— William Shakespeare

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

— 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

What is past is prologue.

— William Shakespeare

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

— William Shakespeare

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

— William Shakespeare

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

— William Shakespeare

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

— 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

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,

— 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

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

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

— William Shakespeare

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

— William Shakespeare

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

— William Shakespeare

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

— William Shakespeare

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

— William Shakespeare

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

— William Shakespeare

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is 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

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

— William Shakespeare

I was adored once too.

— William Shakespeare

Beauty itself doth of itself persuadeThe eyes of men without an orator.

— William Shakespeare

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

— William Shakespeare

Time's glory is to calm contending kings,To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.

— William Shakespeare

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

— William Shakespeare

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

— William Shakespeare

That deep torture may be called a hell,When more is felt than one hath power to tell.

— William Shakespeare

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

— William Shakespeare

On a day — alack the day! —Playing in the wanton air

— William Shakespeare

I will praise any man that will praise me.

— William Shakespeare

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care

— William Shakespeare

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world

— William Shakespeare

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

— William Shakespeare

I gyve unto my wief my second best bed with the furniture

— William Shakespeare

The course of true love never did run smooth.

— William Shakespeare

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

— William Shakespeare

Good frend for Jesus sake forbeareAnd curst be he that moves my bones

— William Shakespeare

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

— William Shakespeare

I was in love with my bed.

— William Shakespeare

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

— William Shakespeare

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

— William Shakespeare

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

— William Shakespeare

Is she not passing fair?

— 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

How use doth breed a habit in a man!

— William Shakespeare

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

— William Shakespeare

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

— William Shakespeare

Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!

— William Shakespeare

Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.

— William Shakespeare

She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd;She is a woman, therefore to be won.

— 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 fox barks not, when he would steal the lamb.

— William Shakespeare

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.

— William Shakespeare

For I can raise no money by vile means.

— William Shakespeare

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

— William Shakespeare

I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.

— William Shakespeare

Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used; and, contrary to the king, his crown, and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.

— William Shakespeare

How well he's read, to reason against reading!

— William Shakespeare

The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.

— William Shakespeare

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

— 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

O God! methinks, it were a happy life,How many years a mortal man may live.

— William Shakespeare

Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him,

— William Shakespeare

O, had I but followed the arts!

— William Shakespeare

Down, down to hell; and say I sent thee thither.

— William Shakespeare

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

— William Shakespeare

Now is the winter of our discontentMade glorious summer by this sun of York.

— William Shakespeare

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

— William Shakespeare

An overflow of good converts to bad.

— William Shakespeare

Off with his head!

— William Shakespeare

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

— William Shakespeare

A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!

— William Shakespeare

Jesters do oft prove prophets.

— William Shakespeare

Thus weary of the world, away she hies,

— William Shakespeare

What's done can't be undone.

— William Shakespeare

What light through yonder window breaks?

— William Shakespeare

we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end.

— William Shakespeare

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

— William Shakespeare

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

— William Shakespeare

What's in a name? That which we call a rose,By any other name would smell as sweet.

— William Shakespeare

Good Madonna, why mournest thou?

— William Shakespeare

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.

— William Shakespeare

O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?

— William Shakespeare

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

— William Shakespeare

The course of true love never did run smooth.

— William Shakespeare

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

— William Shakespeare

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

— William Shakespeare

Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven, shall behold the night of our solemnities.

— William Shakespeare

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

— William Shakespeare

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

— William Shakespeare

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

— 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

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces.

— William Shakespeare

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

— William Shakespeare

All that glisters is not gold.

— William Shakespeare

There's place and means for every man alive.

— William Shakespeare

I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means, warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? 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

It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.

— William Shakespeare

The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.

— William Shakespeare

But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.

— William Shakespeare

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

— William Shakespeare

A man can die but once.

— William Shakespeare

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

— William Shakespeare

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

— William Shakespeare

They do not love that do not show their love.

— William Shakespeare

As merry as the day is long.

— 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

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,To one thing constant never.

— William Shakespeare

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

— William Shakespeare

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

— William Shakespeare

'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

— William Shakespeare

Beware the ides of March.

— William Shakespeare

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

— William Shakespeare

Men at some time are masters of their fates:But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

— William Shakespeare

They say miracles are past.

— William Shakespeare

Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once.

— William Shakespeare

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

— William Shakespeare

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;The good is oft interred with their bones.

— William Shakespeare

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.

— William Shakespeare

There is a tide in the affairs of menIs bound in shallows and in miseries.

— William Shakespeare

Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care,

— 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

All the world's a stage,And one man in his time plays many parts.

— William Shakespeare

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

— William Shakespeare

Neither a borrower nor a lender be;Thou canst not then be false to any man.

— William Shakespeare

Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea

— William Shakespeare

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

— William Shakespeare

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

— William Shakespeare

Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.

— William Shakespeare

Now is the winter of our discontent.

— William Shakespeare

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

— William Shakespeare

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

— William Shakespeare

What a piece of work is a man!in apprehension how like a god!

— William Shakespeare

Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.

— William Shakespeare

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

— William Shakespeare

To be or not to be, that is the question.

— William Shakespeare

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

— William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love, play on.

— William Shakespeare

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

— William Shakespeare

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.

— William Shakespeare

There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.

— William Shakespeare

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit and lost without deserving.

— William Shakespeare

In time we hate that which we often fear.

— William Shakespeare

Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well.

— William Shakespeare

I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.

— William Shakespeare

Nothing can come of nothing.

— William Shakespeare

Of all the wonders that I have heard,

— William Shakespeare

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

— William Shakespeare

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it isTo have a thankless child!

— 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

I am a man,More sinn'd against than sinning.

— William Shakespeare

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

— William Shakespeare

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

— William Shakespeare

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

— William Shakespeare

The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,Burnt on the water.

— William Shakespeare

Under the greenwood tree,

— William Shakespeare

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

— William Shakespeare

Come what come may,Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

— William Shakespeare

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

— William Shakespeare

Is this a dagger which I see before me,The handle toward my hand?

— William Shakespeare

Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much.

— William Shakespeare

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

— William Shakespeare

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Signifying nothing.

— 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

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?And summer's lease hath all too short a date

— William Shakespeare

Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.

— William Shakespeare

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.

— William Shakespeare

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

— 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

Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments.

— William Shakespeare

The valiant never taste of death but once.

— William Shakespeare

Golden lads and girls all must,As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.

— William Shakespeare

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

— William Shakespeare

Full fathom five thy father lies;Into something rich and strange.

— William Shakespeare