Quotes by Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was a well known English play writer, poet and an actor too. He was the greatest writer in the English language and was regarded as the world’s pre- eminent dramatist. Some of his famous plays are Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Othello and more. All over the world he was renowned for his work; here are some of his treasured quotes for you.

01. “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”

02. “Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.”

03. “A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

04. “If music be the food of love, play on.”

05. “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”

06. “The course of true love never did run smooth.”

07. “If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?”

08. “We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”

09. “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.”

10. “Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.”

11. “God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.”

12. “A little more than kin, and less than kind.”

13. “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

14. “Friendship is constant in all other things”

15. “Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”

16. “He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.”

17. “To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”

18. “Live,love,and let be”

19. “When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”

20. “Now is the winter of our discontent”

21. “As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.”

22. “Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.”

23. “Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”

24. “We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life, is rounded with a sleep.”

25. “Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”

26. “Time is the justice that examines all offenders.”

27. “The course of true love never did run smooth.”

28. “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.”

29. “Listen to many, speak to a few.”

30. “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

31. “And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”

32. “God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.”

33. “Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.”

34. “Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.”

35. “A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.”

36. “How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”

37. “It is a wise father that knows his own child.”

38. “As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.”

39. “The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”

40. “The course of true love never did run smooth.”

41. “There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”

42. “The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.”

43. “Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.”

44. “Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.”

45. “Brevity is the soul of wit.”

46. “No legacy is so rich as honesty.”

47. “Strong reasons make strong actions.”

48. “Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.”

49. “Nothing will come of nothing.”

50. “Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win by fearing to attempt.”

51. “Pray you now, forget and forgive.”

52. “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”

53. “Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing.”

54. “An overflow of good converts to bad.”

55. “Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”

56. “Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.”

57. “The golden age is before us, not behind us.”

58. “The empty vessel makes the loudest sound. Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.”

59. “The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”

60. “How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?”

61. “When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”

62. “Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?”

63. “Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.”

64. “Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”

65. “The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.”

66. “False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”

67. “Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.”

68. “Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.”

69. “The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.”

70. “What’s done can’t be undone.”

71. “Speak low, if you speak love.”

72. “Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.”

73. “The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.”

74. “They do not love that do not show their love.”

75. “My pride fell with my fortunes.”

76. “I will wear my heart upon my sleeve”

77. “Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.”

78. “Love’s stories written in love’s richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.”

79. “Give thy thoughts no tongue.”

80. “Neither a borrower nor a lender be.”