The Best William Shakespear quotes

I bear a charmed life. — William Shakespeare

Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, and thou no breath at all? — William Shakespeare

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. — William Shakespeare

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life. — 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

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

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

There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face. — William Shakespeare

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

When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun. — William Shakespeare

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. — William Shakespeare

Boldness be my friend. — William Shakespeare

O’ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side! — William Shakespeare

A boy’s love, or A whore’s oAth. — William Shakespeare

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o’ the flatterer. — William Shakespeare

Love is too young to know what conscience is. — William Shakespeare

What shall Cordelia speak? Love and be silent. [Addressing herself in the third person] — William Shakespeare

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. — William Shakespeare

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known? — William Shakespeare

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better. — William Shakespeare

My mourning and important tears hath pitied. No blown ambition doth our arms incite, but love, dear love, and our ag’d father’s right. Soon may I hear and see him! — William Shakespeare

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. — William Shakespeare

Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave my heart into my mouth. I love your majesty according to my bond, no more nor less. — William Shakespeare

The love of heaven makes one heavenly. — William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. — William Shakespeare

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds. — William Shakespeare

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

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart. — William Shakespeare

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

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. — William Shakespeare

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough. — William Shakespeare

Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not. — William Shakespeare

Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise. — William Shakespeare

It is a wise father that knows his own child. — William Shakespeare

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. — William Shakespeare

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. — William Shakespeare

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. — William Shakespeare

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention. — William Shakespeare

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

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

Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. — 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 will praise any man that will praise me. — William Shakespeare

Now is the winter of our discontent. — William Shakespeare

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. — William Shakespeare

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad! — William Shakespeare

This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen. — William Shakespeare

Neither a borrower nor a lender be. — William Shakespeare

If for I want that glib and oily art, to speak and purpose not, since what I well inten I’ll do’t before I speak. — William Shakespeare

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short. — William Shakespeare

Who is it that can tell me who I am? — 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

So foul and fair a day I have not seen. — William Shakespeare

What is past is prologue. — William Shakespeare

Nothing will come of nothing: speak again. — William Shakespeare

The wheel is come full circle. — William Shakespeare

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end. — William Shakespeare

No legacy is so rich as honesty. — William Shakespeare

O Lear, Lear, Lear! / Beat at this gate that let thy folly in (he strikes his head). — William Shakespeare

The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. — William Shakespeare

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me. — William Shakespeare

This above all; to thine own self be true. — William Shakespeare

The Prince of Darkness is a gentleman. [Term used when beggars pretend to be mentally ill] — William Shakespeare

When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools. — William Shakespeare

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

Time and the hour run through the roughest day. — William Shakespeare

Death is a fearful thing. — William Shakespeare

We are time’s subjects, and time bids be gone. — William Shakespeare

Men shut their doors against a setting sun. — William Shakespeare

O, dear father, It is thy business that I go about. — William Shakespeare