William Shakespeare Quotes

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.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

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

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

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

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

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

Listen to many, speak to a few.

I must be cruel, only to be kind.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

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.

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

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

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.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

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

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

By that sin fell the angels.

Death is a fearful thing.

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.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

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

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

Let no such man be trusted.

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

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

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

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

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

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

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.

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

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

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.

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

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

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

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

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

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

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

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

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

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

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

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.