Quotes

A friend i'the court is better than a penny in purse.
-William Shakespeare

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
-William Shakespeare

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
-William Shakespeare

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
-William Shakespeare

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
-William Shakespeare

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
-William Shakespeare

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
-William Shakespeare

Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.
-William Shakespeare

Farewell, fair cruelty.
-William Shakespeare

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
-William Shakespeare

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.
-William Shakespeare

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
-William Shakespeare

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
-William Shakespeare

I bear a charmed life.
-William Shakespeare

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
-William Shakespeare

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
-William Shakespeare

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.
-William Shakespeare

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
-William Shakespeare

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
-William Shakespeare

Boldness be my friend.
-William Shakespeare

By that sin fell the angels.
-William Shakespeare

Death is a fearful thing.
-William Shakespeare

Expectation is the root of all heartache.
-William Shakespeare

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
-William Shakespeare

Give every man thy ear, but few they voice.
-William Shakespeare

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
-William Shakespeare

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
-William Shakespeare

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
-William Shakespeare

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
-William Shakespeare

I dote on his very absence.
-William Shakespeare

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
-William Shakespeare

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
-William Shakespeare

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
-William Shakespeare

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
-William Shakespeare

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
-William Shakespeare

Brevity is the soul of wit.
-William Shakespeare

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
-William Shakespeare

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
-William Shakespeare

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
-William Shakespeare

For I can raise no money by vile means.
-William Shakespeare

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
-William Shakespeare

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
-William Shakespeare

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
-William Shakespeare

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world.
-William Shakespeare

How well he's read, to reason against reading!
-William Shakespeare

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
-William Shakespeare

I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.
-William Shakespeare

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
-William Shakespeare

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
-William Shakespeare

An overflow of good converts to bad.
-William Shakespeare

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
-William Shakespeare

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
-William Shakespeare

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.
-William Shakespeare

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
-William Shakespeare

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
-William Shakespeare

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
-William Shakespeare

For my part, it was Greek to me.
-William Shakespeare

Give thy thoughts no tongue.
-William Shakespeare

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
-William Shakespeare

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.
-William Shakespeare

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
-William Shakespeare

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
-William Shakespeare

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
-William Shakespeare

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
-William Shakespeare