Authors — Quotes

William Shakespeare Quotes: 135

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
As You Like It
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
All's Well That Ends Well
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
Twelfth Night
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
Julius Caesar
Doubt thou the stars are fire;Doubt that the sun doth move;Doubt truth to be a liar;But never doubt I love.
Hamlet
I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!
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.
Hamlet
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Hamlet
If music be the food of love, play on,Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,The appetite may sicken, and so die.
Twelfth Night
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
The Tempest
When he shall die,Take him and cut him out in little stars,And he will make the face of heaven so fineThat all the world will be in love with nightAnd pay no worship to the garish sun.
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare Collection)
We know what we are, but not what we may be.
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.
As You Like It
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
The Passionate Pilgrim
You speak an infinite deal of nothing.
The Merchant of Venice
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
Julius Caesar
My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.
The Taming of the Shrew
Though she be but little, she is fierce!
A Midsummer Night's Dream
By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.
Macbeth
My bounty is as boundless as the sea,My love as deep; the more I give to thee,The more I have, for both are infinite.
Romeo and Juliet
These violent delights have violent endsAnd in their triump die, like fire and powderWhich, as they kiss, consume
Romeo and Juliet
My only love sprung from my only hate!Too early seen unknown, and known too late!Prodigious birth of love it is to me,That I must love a loathed enemy.
Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,To the last syllable of recorded time;And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,And then is heard no more. It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.
Macbeth
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
A Midsummer Night's Dream
thus with a kiss I die
Romeo and Juliet
Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.
Romeo and Juliet
Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
Romeo and Juliet
I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
The Merchant of Venice
This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
Romeo and Juliet
Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)
Romeo and Juliet
They do not love that do not show their love.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
Life ... is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.
Macbeth
Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove.O no, it is an ever-fixed markThat looks on tempests and is never shaken;It is the star to every wand'ring bark,Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken."(Sonnet 116)
Shakespeare's Sonnets
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
The Merchant of Venice
And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.
Romeo and Juliet
I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.
Much Ado About Nothing
What's done cannot be undone.
Macbeth