William Shakespeare Quotes

Like madness is the glory of this life.

~ William Shakespeare

Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

~ William Shakespeare

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

~ William Shakespeare

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,To the last syllable of recorded time;And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!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

Of all the wonders that I have heard,It seems to me most strange that men should fear;Seeing death, a necessary end,Will come when it will come.(Act II, Scene 2)

~ William Shakespeare

Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.

~ William Shakespeare

Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

~ William Shakespeare

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

~ William Shakespeare

All the world's a stage.

~ William Shakespeare

Life... is a paradise to what we fear of death.

~ William Shakespeare

The summer's flower is to the summer sweetThough to itself it only live and die

~ William Shakespeare

What's done cannot be undone.

~ William Shakespeare

This above all: to thine own self be true.

~ William Shakespeare

That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)

~ William Shakespeare

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

~ William Shakespeare

Cressida: My lord, will you be true?Troilus: Who, I? Alas, it is my vice, my fault:Whiles others fish with craft for great opinion,I with great truth catch mere simplicity;Whilst some with cunning gild their copper crowns,With truth and plainness I do wear mine bare.Fear not my truth: the moral of my witIs plain and true; there's all the reach of it.

~ William Shakespeare

He that hath the steerage of my course,Direct my sail.

~ William Shakespeare

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

~ William Shakespeare

Wisely and slow, they stumble that run fast.

~ William Shakespeare

My soul is in the sky.

~ William Shakespeare

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

~ William Shakespeare

These violent delights have violent ends.

~ William Shakespeare

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

~ William Shakespeare

A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.

~ William Shakespeare

There's a divinity that shapes our ends,Rough-hew them how we will.

~ William Shakespeare

Men must endureTheir going hence, even as their coming hither.Ripeness is all.

~ William Shakespeare

Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.

~ William Shakespeare

His life was gentle; and the elementsSo mixed in him, that Nature might stand upAnd say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!

~ William Shakespeare

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him; The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones

~ William Shakespeare

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

~ William Shakespeare

There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.

~ William Shakespeare

Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.

~ William Shakespeare

When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew

~ William Shakespeare

LEONATOWell, then, go you into hell?BEATRICENo, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to heaven; here's no place for you maids:' so deliver I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long.

~ William Shakespeare

LEONATOWell, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.BEATRICENot till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.

~ William Shakespeare

I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table. Macbeth

~ William Shakespeare

If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...

~ William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love, play on,Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,The appetite may sicken, and so die.

~ William Shakespeare

My only love sprung from my only hate!Too early seen unknown, and known too late!Prodigious birth of love it is to me,That I must love a loathed enemy.

~ William Shakespeare

thus with a kiss I die

~ William Shakespeare