William Shakespeare Quotes

Experience is by industry achiev'd,And perfected by the swift course of time.

~ William Shakespeare

Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out at every joint and motive of her body.

~ William Shakespeare

It were a grief so brief to part with thee.Farewell.

~ William Shakespeare

A sad tale's best for winter: I have one of sprites and goblins.

~ William Shakespeare

Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog And little mouse, every unworthy thing, Live here in heaven and may look on her, But Romeo may not.

~ William Shakespeare

To be or not to be that is the question.

~ William Shakespeare

Men in rage strike those that wish them best.

~ William Shakespeare

By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.

~ William Shakespeare

Let us revenge this withour pikes, ere we become rakes: for the gods know Ispeak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge.

~ William Shakespeare

That in the captain's but a choleric word,Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

~ William Shakespeare

I understand a fury in your wordsBut not your words.

~ 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 taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.

~ William Shakespeare

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

~ William Shakespeare

I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none

~ William Shakespeare

Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool?Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.

~ William Shakespeare

Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare, forked animal as thou art.

~ William Shakespeare

What a piece of work is man!

~ William Shakespeare

My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.

~ William Shakespeare

Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still,Should, without eyes, see pathways to his will!Where shall we dine? O me! What fray was here?Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all.Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love.Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!O any thing, of nothing first create!O heavy lightness! Serious vanity!Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms!Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!This love feel I, that feel no love in this.Dost thou not laugh?

~ William Shakespeare

My only love sprung from my only hate.

~ William Shakespeare

Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I'll always be in your heart... If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind.

~ William Shakespeare

Love me or hate me, both are in my favor. If you love me, I'll always be in your heart. If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind.

~ William Shakespeare

Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate,Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving

~ William Shakespeare

I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment.

~ William Shakespeare

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

~ 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

~ William Shakespeare

I might call him. A thing divine, for nothing natural. I ever saw so noble.

~ William Shakespeare

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

~ William Shakespeare

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

~ William Shakespeare

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

~ William Shakespeare

Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.

~ William Shakespeare

What a fool honesty is.

~ William Shakespeare

To be honest, as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.Hamlet Act II, Scene II Lines 178-179

~ William Shakespeare

I cannot heave my heart into my mouth. I love your majesty according to my bond, no more no less.

~ William Shakespeare

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.- Lucullus (Act III, scene 1)

~ William Shakespeare

Ay,sir;to be honest,as this world goes,is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

~ William Shakespeare

I do believe you think what now you speak,But what we do determine oft we break.Purpose is but the slave to memory,Of violent birth, but poor validity,Which now, like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree,But fall, unshaken, when they mellow be.Most necessary ’tis that we forgetTo pay ourselves what to ourselves is debt.What to ourselves in passion we propose,The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.

~ William Shakespeare

For your sake, jewel,I am glad at soul I have no other child;For thy escape would teach me tyranny,To hang clogs on them.

~ William Shakespeare

The truth you speak doth lack some gentlenessAnd time to speak it in. You rub the soreWhen you should bring the plaster.

~ William Shakespeare

O! Learn to read what silent love hath writ:to hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.

~ William Shakespeare