William Shakespeare Quotes

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698 Quotes Revealing Timeless Wisdom on Love, Trust, and Human Nature

“It is far easier for me to teach twenty what were right to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.”

“If your mind dislike anything obey it”

“Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if.”

“Some grief shows much of love,
But much of grief shows still some want of wit.”

“It puzzles the will.”

“That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.”

“Let every man be master of his time.”

“Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the
fool no where but in's own house.”

“Bloody thou art, bloody will be thy end;
Shame serves thy life and doth thy death attend.”

“Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye
Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet,
And I am proof against their enmity.”

“It is my soul that calls upon my name;
How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night,
like softest music to attending ears!
-Romeo”

“As merry as the day is long.”

“I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!”

“The rain, it raineth every day.”

“I talk of you:
Why did you wish me milder? would you have me
False to my nature? Rather say I play
The man I am.”

“That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)”

“Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find.”

“It is an heretic that makes the fire,
Not she which burns in't.”

“Mend your speech a little, Lest you may mar your fortunes.”

“Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.”

“Are you up to your destiny?”

“Fortune love you.”

“Less art, more matter”

“Action is eloquence.”

“When our actions do not, our fears do make us traitors”

“Assume a virtue, if you have it not.”

“Come, thou tortoise!”

“Make love’s quick pants”

“The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,
Burnt on the water.”

“Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.”

“Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well.”

“How use doth breed a habit in a man!”

“What a piece of work is a man!
How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty!
In form and moving how express and admirable!
In action how like an angel,
in apprehension how like a god!”

“Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used; and, contrary to the king, his crown, and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.”

“Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.”

“A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!”

“O God! methinks, it were a happy life,
To be no better than a homely swain;
To sit upon a hill, as I do now,
To carve out dials quaintly, point by point,
Thereby to see the minutes how they run:
How many make the hour full complete,
How many hours bring about the day,
How many days will finish up the year,
How many years a mortal man may live.”

“I was in love with my bed.”

“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces.”

“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.”

“The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!”

“Time's glory is to calm contending kings,
To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.”

“Good frend for Jesus sake forbeare
To digg the dust encloased heare
Blese be the man that spares these stones
And curst be he that moves my bones”

“Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!”

“However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God.”

“Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments.”

“The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.”

“Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.”

“Nothing is more common than the wish to be remarkable.”