William Shakespeare Quotes

What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night,So stumblest on my counsel?*Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?*

~ William Shakespeare

A peevish self-willed harlotry it is.*She’s a stubborn little brat.*

~ William Shakespeare

But man, proud man,Dress'd in a little brief authority,Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd—His glassy essence—like an angry apePlays such fantastic tricks before high heavenAs makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens,Would all themselves laugh mortal.

~ William Shakespeare

A walking shadow a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.

~ William Shakespeare

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

~ William Shakespeare

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

~ William Shakespeare

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

~ William Shakespeare

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

~ William Shakespeare

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

~ William Shakespeare

He that dies pays all debts.

~ William Shakespeare

I care not a man can die but once we owe God a death.

~ William Shakespeare

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

~ William Shakespeare

Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it.

~ William Shakespeare

No 'tis not so deep as a well nor so wide as a church door but 'tis enough 'twill serve: ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered I warrant for this world.

~ William Shakespeare

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns.

~ William Shakespeare

This too shall pass.

~ William Shakespeare

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

~ William Shakespeare

How poor are they that have not patience? What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

~ William Shakespeare

Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.

~ William Shakespeare

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

~ William Shakespeare

The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves.

~ William Shakespeare

I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

~ William Shakespeare

That that is is.

~ William Shakespeare

Action is eloquence.

~ William Shakespeare

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

~ William Shakespeare

He was a man take him for all in all I shall not look upon his like again.

~ William Shakespeare

God made him and therefore let him pass for a man.

~ William Shakespeare

Men must endure their going hence even as their coming hither ripeness is all.

~ William Shakespeare

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it never in the tongue Of him that makes it.

~ William Shakespeare

Be thou as chaste as ice as pure as snow thou shalt not escape calumny.

~ William Shakespeare

Goodnight! Goodnight! Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say goodnight 'til it be morrow.

~ William Shakespeare

God has given you one face and you make yourselves another.

~ William Shakespeare

Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.

~ William Shakespeare

Make use of time let not advantage slip.

~ William Shakespeare

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

~ William Shakespeare

The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.

~ William Shakespeare

Come what may time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

~ William Shakespeare

Time is the king of men.

~ William Shakespeare

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

~ William Shakespeare

Modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise.

~ William Shakespeare