Famous Quotes

Quotes by William Shakespeare

• Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
• In time we hate that which we often fear.
• It is a wise father that knows his own child.
• It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
• Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
• Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
• Life every man holds dear but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
• Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
• 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 tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
• Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
• Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
• Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
• Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
• Love is too young to know what conscience is.
• Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
• Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
• Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
• 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.
• Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
• Men's vows are women's traitors!
• Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
• No, I will be the pattern of all patience I will say nothing.
• Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
• O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
• One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
• Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
• Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
• Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
• Speak low, if you speak love.
• Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds.
• The course of true love never did run smooth.
• The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones.
• The golden age is before us, not behind us.
• The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
• The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
• The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
• The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
• The valiant never taste of death but once.
• There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
• 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.