William Shakespeare Quotes

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

“Let me have men about me that are fat… Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.”

“I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die.”

“Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,
And vice sometime by action dignified.”

“In jest, there is truth.”

“Ay me! for aught that ever I could read,
could ever hear by tale or history,
the course of true love never did run smooth.”

“You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse”

“Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine ownself be true.
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

“Up and down, up and down
I will lead them up and down
I am feared in field in town
Goblin, lead them up and down”

“Ha. "Against my will I am sent to bid you come into dinner." There's a double meaning in that.
-Benedick (Much Ado)”

“I am your wife if you will marry me.
If not, I'll die your maid. To be your fellow
You may deny me, but I'll be your servant Whether you will or no.”

“Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.”

“And nothing is, but what is not.”

“And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.”

“As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.”

“No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.”

“They lie deadly that tell you have good faces.”

“Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion”

“When you depart from me sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave.”

“A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm”

“No matter where; of comfort no man speak:
Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;
Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes
Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth”

“I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?”

“The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope.”

“There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.”

“Yet but three come one more.
Two of both kinds make up four.
Ere she comes curst and sad.
Cupid is a knavish lad.
Thus to make poor females mad.”

“The world must be peopled!”

“It is excellent / To have a giant's strenght / But it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant

(Isabella)”

“You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they should
sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs.”

“true apothecary thy drugs art quick”

“Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.”

“I do desire we may be better strangers.”

“It’s easy for someone to joke about scars if they’ve never been cut.”

“All that glisters is not gold.”

“Your cause of sorrow must not be measured by his worth, for then it hath no end.”

“As he was valiant, I honor him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.”

“God shall be my hope, my stay, my guide and lantern to my feet.”

“Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.”

“I’ll look to like, if looking liking move; But no more deep will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it fly.”

“Men are April when they woo, December when they wed…”

“There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember.”

“Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.”

“Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special
providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,
'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be
now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the
readiness is all.”

“But it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in the most humorous sadness.”

“O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art
As glorious to this night, being o'er my head
As is a winged messenger of heaven”

“Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.”

“Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.”

“If after every tempest come such calms,
May the winds blow till they have waken'd death!”

“Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.”

“The ides of March are come.
Soothsayer: Ay, Caesar; but not gone.”

“The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.”