Famous Quotes

Quotes by William Shakespeare

• 'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
• A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
• A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
• Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
• 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.
• An overflow of good converts to bad.
• And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
• As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
• But men are men the best sometimes forget.
• But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
• Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
• Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once.
• Death is a fearful thing.
• Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
• Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.
• For I can raise no money by vile means.
• God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
• God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
• Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
• How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
• How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
• I bear a charmed life.
• I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
• I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
• I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
• I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
• I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
• If music be the food of love, play on.
• 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.
• If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
• If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
• Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.