William Shakespeare Quotes

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

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

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

I dote on his very absence.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

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

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

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

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

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

What's done can't be undone.

Now is the winter of our discontent.

Farewell, fair cruelty.

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

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

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

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

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

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

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

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

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

What is past is prologue.

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

I was adored once too.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

Nothing can come of nothing.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

They say miracles are past.