William Shakespeare: Trending quotes

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

“We, ignorant of ourselves,
Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers
Deny us for our good; so find we profit
By losing of our prayers.”

“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”

“The rest, is silence.”

“Love moderately. Long love doth so.
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

*Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow.”

“The prince of darkness is a gentleman!”

“No legacy is so rich as honesty.”

“Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.”

“The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.”

“I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.”

“To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.”

“All the world's a stage.”

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through fog and filthy air.”

“I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.”

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.”

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”

“You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings
and soar with them above a common bound.”

“O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't!”

“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)”