Some William Shakespeare quotes are known for their beauty, some Shakespeare quotes for their everyday truths and some for their wisdom.
As the most quoted English writer, Shakespeare created more than his fair share of famous quotes. We often talk about Shakespeare’s quotes as things the wise Bard is saying to us, but we should remember that some of his wisest words are spoken by his biggest fools. For example, both ‘neither a borrower nor a lender be,’ and ‘to thine own self be true’ are from the foolish, garrulous and quite disreputable Polonius in Hamlet.
Whilst it’s hard to definitively say which are the most famous Shakespeare quotes, we’ve examined polls published around the world, combined these with feedback from website users, and added our own take on Shakespeare’s words, and can now offer what we believe to be the 50 most famous Shakespeare quotes of all time (in no particular order!).
50 Of Shakespeare’s Most Famous Quotes
1. ‘To be, or not to be: that is the question’
(Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1)
2. ‘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.’
(As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 7)
3. ‘Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?‘
(Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2)
4. ‘Now is the winter of our discontent’
(Richard III, Act 1, Scene 1)
5. ‘Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?’
(Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 1)
6. ‘The lady doth protest too much, methinks‘
(Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2)
7. ‘Beware the Ides of March.‘
(Julius Caesar, Act 1, Scene 2)
8. ‘Get thee to a nunnery.‘
(Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1)
9. ‘If music be the food of love play on.‘
(Twelfth Night, Act 1, Scene 1)
10. ‘What’s in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.’
(Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2)
11. ‘The better part of valor is discretion‘
(Henry IV, Part 1, Act 5, Scene 4)
12. ‘All that glisters is not gold.‘
(The Merchant of Venice, Act 2, Scene 7)
13. ‘Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears: I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.’
(Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2)
14. ‘Cry “havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war‘
(Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 1)
15. ‘A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!‘
(Richard III, Act 5, Scene 4)
16. ‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.’
(Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 5)
17. ‘Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.’
(A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 1, Scene 1)
18. ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.’
(Sonnet 18)
19. ‘Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.‘
(Henry IV, Part 2, Act 3, Scene 1)
20. ‘Brevity is the soul of wit.‘
(Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2)
21. ‘This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle… This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.’
(Richard II, Act 2, Scene 1)
22. ‘What light through yonder window breaks.’
(Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2)
23. ‘Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.’
(Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 5)
24. ‘Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.’
(Julius Caesar, Act 2, Scene 2)
25. ‘Full fathom five thy father lies, of his bones are coral made. Those are pearls that were his eyes. Nothing of him that doth fade, but doth suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange.’
(The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2)
26. ‘A man can die but once.’
(Henry IV, Part 2, Act 3, Part 2)
27. ‘How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!’
(King Lear, Act 1, Scene 4)
28. ‘Frailty, thy name is woman.’
(Hamlet Act 1, Scene 2)
29. ‘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?’
(The Merchant of Venice, Act 3, Scene 1)
30. ‘I am one who loved not wisely but too well.’
(Othello, Act 5, Scene 2)
31. ‘We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.’
(The Tempest, Act 4, Scene 1)
32. ‘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 tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.’
(Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5)
33. ‘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, Act 1, Scene 3)
34. ‘Et tu, Brute?‘
(Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 1)
35. ‘There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.’
(Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2)
36. ‘Nothing will come of nothing.’
(King Lear, Act 1, Scene 1)
37. ‘The course of true love never did run smooth.’
(A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 1, Scene 1)
38. ‘Lord, what fools these mortals be!’
(A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 1, Scene 1)
39. ‘The fault, dear Brutus, lies not within the stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.’
(Julius Caesar, Act 1, Scene 2)
40. ‘Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.’
(Sonnet 116)
41. ‘The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interrèd with their bones.’
(Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2)
42. ‘But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.’
(Julius Caesar, Act 1, Scene 2)
43. ‘Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.’
(Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3)
44. ‘We know what we are, but know not what we may be.’
(Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5)
45. ‘Off with his head!’
(Richard III, Act 3, Scene 4)
46. ‘Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.’
(The Tempest, Act 2, Scene 2)
47. ‘This is very midsummer madness.’
(Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 4)
48. ‘Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.’
(Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3, Scene 1)
49. ‘I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.’
(The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 3, Scene 2)
50. ‘We have seen better days.’
(Timon of Athens, Act 4, Scene 2)
51. ‘I am a man more sinned against than sinning.’
(King Lear, Act 3, Scene 2)
What do you think – any famous Shakespeare quotes missing from the above list? As per his own words, Shakespeare may not have been born great, but he certainly managed to achieve greatness! Let us know your favourite William Shakespeare quotes in the comments section below.
The Random Vibez gets you a collection of Popular William Shakespeare Quotes from the plays and verse of William Shakespeare. Beautiful inspirational Quotes by Shakespeare on love, life, friendship, time and more.
Short William Shakespeare Quotes from Famous Plays
- “All’s well that ends well.”
- “Brevity is the soul of wit.”
- “Get thee to a nunnery.”- Hamlet
- “To thine own self be true.”- Hamlet
- “Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.”
- “Off with his head!”- Richard III Act 3
- “Strong reasons make strong actions.”
- “Frailty, thy name is woman.”- Hamlet
- “To be, or not to be: that is the question”
- “Nothing will come of nothing.”- King Lear
- “We have seen better days.”- Timon of Athens
- “Let life be short: else shame will be too long.”
- “The course of true love never did run smooth”
- “Some are born great, others achieve greatness.”
- “The better part of valor is discretion.”- Henry IV
- “Now is the winter of our discontent.”- Richard III
- “This is very midsummer madness.”- Twelfth Night
- “All that glitters is not gold.”- The Merchant of Venice
- “I am one who loved not wisely but too well.”- Othello
- “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”- Hamlet
- “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”- Sonnet 18
- “Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.”- Henry IV
- “A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!”- Richard III
- “I am a man more sinned against than sinning.”- King Lear
- “We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”- Hamlet
- “Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.”- The Tempest
- “Lord, what fools these mortals be!”- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”- Hamlet
- “I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.”- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- “Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.”- Sonnet 116
- “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!”- King Lear
- “Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?”- Macbeth
- “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”- Hamlet
- “This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle… This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.”- Richard II
- “Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.”- Hamlet
Julius Caesar Shakespeare Quotes
- “Et tu, Brute?”- Caesar (Act 3, Scene 1)
- “Beware the Ides of March.”- Julius Caesar
- “Cry “havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war.”- Julius Caesar
- “But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.”- Julius Caesar
- “There is a tide in the affairs of men.”- Brutus (Act 4, Scene 3)
- “Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war”- Antony (Act 3 Scene 1)
- “This was the most unkindest cut of all.”- Antony (Act 3 Scene 2)
- “Let’s carve him as a dish fit for the gods.”- Brutus (Act 2 Scene 1)
- “But, for mine own part, it was Greek to me.”- Casca (Act 1 Scene 2)
- “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.”- Antony ( Act 3 Scene 2)
- “Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come”- Ceasar (Act 2, Scene 2)
- “Romans, countrymen and lovers! Hear me for my cause.”- Brutus (Act 3 Scene 2)
- “Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.”- Brutus (Act 3 Scene 2)
- “As he was valiant, I honor him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.”- Brutus (Act 3, Scene 2)
- “The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”- Julius Caesar
- “Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”- Julius Caesar
- “Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.”- Antony (Act 3, Scene 2)
- “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears: I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.”- Julius Caesar
- “The fault, dear Brutus, lies not within the stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.”- Julius Caesar
- “The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their bones.”- Mark Antony (Act 3, Scene 2)
- “Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look: He thinks too much: such men are dangerous”- Caesar (Act 1 Scene 2)
- “This day I breathed first: time is come round, And where I did begin there shall I end; My life is run his compass.”- Julius Caesar
- “When beggars die there are no comets seen: The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.”- Calphurnia (Act 2, Scene 2)
- “But I am constant as the Northern Star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament.”- Ceasar (Act 3, Scene 1)
- “Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”- Cassius (Act 1 Scene 2)
- “I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.”- Julius Caesar
- Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonorable graves. Cassius (Act 1, Scene 2)
- “Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks the power to dismiss itself.”- Julius Caesar
- “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.”- Caesar (Act 2 Scene 2)
Inspirational Shakespeare Quotes about Life
- “Life is a shuttle.”
- “Thy life’s a miracle.”- King Lear
- “I bear a charmed life.”- Macbeth
- “A man can die but once.”- Henry IV
- “Life is a shuttle.”- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- “To be, or not to be,—that is the question.”- Hamlet
- “And a man’s life’s no more than to say ‘One’”- Hamlet
- “Let life be short: else shame will be too long.”- Henry V
- “Give that which gave thee life unto the worms.”- Henry IV
- “So wise so young, they say, never do live long.”- Richard III
- “There where my fortune lives, there my life dies.”- King John
- “The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.”
- “O excellent! I love long life better than figs.”- Antony and Cleopatra
- “Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin’s fee.”-Hamlet
- “Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.”
- “The time of life is short; to spend that shortness basely were too long.”- Henry IV
- “Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.”- Richard II
- “When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools.”- King Lear
- “Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.”- King John
- “The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.”- All’s Well That Ends Well
- “Life no longer than thy love will stay, For it depends upon that love of thine.”- Sonnet 92
- “Mine honour is my life; both grow in one: Take honour from me, and my life is done.”- Richard II
- “So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”- Sonnet 18
- “We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”- The Tempest
- “Give my love fame faster than Time wastes life, So thou prevent’st his scythe and crooked knife.”- Sonnet 100
- “Your name from hence immortal life shall have, Though I, once gone, to all the world must die.”- Sonnet 81
- “The sands are number’d that make up my life; Here must I stay, and here my life must end.”- Henry VI Part III
- “Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep.”- Measure for Measure
- “So weary with disasters, tugg’d with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance, To mend, or be rid on’t.”- Macbeth
- “And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe. And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.”- As You Like It
- “You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.”- Hamlet
- “And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything.”
- “That but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We’ld jump the life to come.”- Macbeth
- “Her father lov’d me; oft invited me; Still question’d me the story of my life, From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes, That I have pass’d.”- Othello
- “And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything.”- As You Like It
- “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? ”-The Merchant of Venice
- “O gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial’s point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour.”- Henry IV
- “Though well we may not pass upon his life Without the form of justice, yet our power Shall do a courtesy to our wrath, which men May blame, but not control.”- King Lear
- “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.”- As You Like It.
- “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 tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”- Macbeth
Romantic Shakespeare Quotes About Love
- “Speak low, if you speak love.”
- “If music be the food of love, play on.”
- “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
- “You have witchcraft in your lips.”- Henry V
- “Men’s vows are women’s traitors.”- Cymbeline
- “I’ll make my heaven in a lady’s lap.”- Henry VI
- “Love hath made thee a tame snake.”- As You Like It
- “The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.”- As You Like It
- “Lovers ever run before the clock.”- The Merchant of Venice
- “Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?”- As You Like It
- “To be wise and love, Exceeds man’s might.”- Troilus & Cressida
- “Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.”- Twelfth night
- “There’s beggary in love that can be reckoned.”- Antony & Cleopatra
- “His unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.”- Othello
- “I would not wish any companion in the world but you.”- The Tempest
- “I humbly do beseech of your pardon, For too much loving you.”- Othello
- “Kiss me, Kate, we shall be married o’Sunday.”- The Taming of the Shrew
- “Love is begun by time, And time qualifies the spark and fire of it.”- Hamlet
- “Love will not be spurred to what it loathes.”- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- “A heart to love, and in that heart, Courage, to make’s love known.”- Macbeth
- “I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say ‘I love you,”- Henry V
- “The course of true love never did run smooth.”- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- “You cannot call it love, for at your age the heyday in the blood is tame.”- Hamlet
- “In thy youth wast as true a lover, As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow.”- As You Like It
- “Cupid is a knavish lad, thus to make females mad.”- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- “I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster.”- Much Ado About Nothing
- “For where thou art, there is the world itself, And where thou art not, desolation.”- Henry VI
- “Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love.”- Anotony & Cleopatra
- “I pray you, do not fall in love with me, For I am falser than vows made in wine.”- As You Like It
- “Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.”- As You Like It
- “Love goes by haps; Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.”- Much Ado About Nothing
- “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
- “She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them.”- Othello
- “She’s beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is woman, and therefore to be won.”- Henry VI
- “I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me.”- Much Ado About Nothing
- “I love you more than words can wield the matter, Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty.”- King Lear
- “I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip.”- Othello
- “What is light, if Sylvia be not seen? What is joy if Sylvia be not by?”- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- “Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by.”- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- “They are in the very wrath of love, and they will go together. Clubs cannot part them.”- As You Like It
- “Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, Did my heart fly at your service.”- The Tempest
- “Love is blind, and lovers cannot see, The pretty follies that themselves commit.”- The Merchant of Venice
- “Mistress, you know yourself, down on your knees, And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love.”- As You Like It
- “She will die if you love her not, And she will die ere she might make her love known.”- Much Ado About Nothing
- “What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!”- Much Ado About Nothing
- “Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee, and when I love thee not, chaos is come again.”- Othello
- “Doubt that the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move his aides, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.”- Hamlet
- “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- “Is this the generation of love? Hot blood, hot thoughts and hot deeds? Why, they are vipers. Is love a generation of vipers?”- Troilus & Cressida
- “Oh, how this spring of love resembleth, The uncertain glory of an April day, Which now shows all beauty of the Sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away.”- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet Quotes
- “Parting is such sweet sorrow.”- Juliet, Act 2 Scene 1
- “A plague o’ both your houses!”- Mercutio, Act 3 Scene 1
- “Under love’s heavy burden do I sink.”- Romeo, Act 1, Scene 4
- “A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life.”- Chorus, Prologue
- “What light through yonder window breaks.”- Romeo and Juliet
- “Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?”- Romeo and Juliet
- “Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.”- Prince, Act 3 Scene 1
- “O deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness!”- Friar Laurence, Act 3 Scene 3
- “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” – Juliet, Act 2 Scene 1
- “Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs.”- Romeo & Juliet
- “These violent delights have violent ends.”- Friar Laurence, Act 2 Scene 5
- “Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties.”- Romeo & Juliet
- “Romeo, Romeo, Romeo! Here’s drink: I drink to thee.”- Juliet, Act 4 Scene 3
- “Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.”- Friar Lawrence, Act 2, Scene 3
- “What’s in a name? A rose by any name would smell as sweet.”- Romeo and Juliet
- “This is thy sheath [stabs herself]; there rest, and let me die.”- Juliet, Act 5, Scene 3
- “That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet.” – Juliet, Act 2 Scene 1
- “O true apothecary, Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.”- Romeo, Act 5 Scene 3
- “O happy dagger, This is thy sheath: there rust, and let me die.”- Juliet, Act 5 Scene 3
- “For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”- Prince, Act 5 Scene 3
- “Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof.”- Romeo & Juliet
- “But, soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.”- Romeo, Act 2 Scene 1
- “For this alliance may so happy prove, To turn your households’ rancour to pure love.”- Friar Laurence, Act 2 Scene 2
- “This bud of love by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.”- Romeo & Juliet
- “One fairer than my love? the all-seeing sun Ne’er saw her match since first the world begun.”- Romeo, Act 1, Scene 2
- “Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”- Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2
- “I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptiz’d; Henceforth I never will be Romeo.”- Romeo, Act 2, Scene 2
- “Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy, That one short minute gives me in her sight.”- Romeo & Juliet
- “See how she leans her cheek upon her hand, O that I were a glove upon that hand that I might touch that cheek!”- Romeo, Act 2, Scene 2
- “O, swear not by the moon, th’ inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.”- Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2
- “Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch! I tell thee what: get thee to church o’Thursday, Or never after look me in the face.”- Capulet, Act 3 Scene 5
- “Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lover’s eyes; Being vex’d a sea nourish’d with lover’s tears.” – Romeo, Act 1 Scene 1
- “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.”- Juliet, Act 1, Scene 5
- “And yet I wish but for the thing I have; 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.”- Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2
- “But soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!— Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid art far more fair than she.”- Romeo, Act 2, Scene 2
Shakespeare Quotes About Death
- “Muddy death”- Hamlet
- “Death is a fearful thing.”
- “He that dies pays all debts.”
- “Look upon thy death”- Romeo & Juliet
- “This thought is as a death”- Sonnet 64
- “To be, or not to be, that is the question.”
- “Ay, but to die, and go we know not where.”
- “Speak me fair in death”- Merchant of Venice
- “Death rock me asleep”- King Henry IV, Part II
- “Unsubstantial Death is amorous”- Romeo & Juliet
- “The gloomy shade of death”- King Henry VI, Part I
- “For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come.”
- “O wretched state! o bosom black as death!”- Hamlet
- “Why, thou owest god a death”- King Henry IV, Part I
- “O Death, made proud with pure and princely beauty!”
- “Tired with all these, for restful death I cry”- Sonnet 66
- “Crack’d in pieces by malignant Death”- King Richard III
- “The valiant never taste of death but once”- Julius Caesar
- “On pain of death, no person be so bold”- King Richard II
- “Death lies on her like an untimely frost”- Romeo & Juliet
- “For now they kill me with a living death”- King Richard III
- “Death-counterfeiting sleep”- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- “Death is my son-in-law, death is my heir”- Romeo & Juliet
- “For in that sleep of death what dreams may come”- Hamlet
- “Let me be boiled to death with melancholy”- Twelfth Night
- “Death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead!”- Romeo & Juliet
- “To rush into the secret house of death”- Antony & Cleopatra
- “Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death”- Romeo & Juliet
- “So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men”- Sonnet 146
- “Though Death be poor, it ends a mortal woe”- King Richard II
- “Then love-devouring Death do what he dare”- Romeo & Juliet
- “What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!”- King Richard III
- “Thou ominous and fearful owl of death”- King Henry VI, Part I
- “Death, that hath suck’d the honey of thy breath”- Romeo & Juliet
- “The worst is Death, and death will have his day”- King Richard II
- “Ay, but to die, and go we know not where”- Measure for Measure
- “What is thy sentence then but speechless death”- King Richard II
- “When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover”- Sonnet 5
- “Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death”- King Richard III
- “The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.”
- “The sudden hand of Death close up mine eye!”- Love’s Labour’s Lost
- “When Death doth close his tender dying eyes”- King Henry VI, Part I
- “Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother’s death the memory be green.”
- “Where hateful Death put on his ugliest mask”- King Henry IV, Part II
- “By medicine, life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor, too.”
- “Whose heart the accustom’d sight of death makes hard”- As You Like It
- “The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes”- Julius Caesar
- “Then have we a prescription to die when Death is our physician”- Othello
- “Till our King Henry had shook hands with Death”- King Henry VI, Part III
- “Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”
- “The stroke of death is as a lovers pinch, Which hurts and is desired.”- Antony & Cleopatra
- “By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.”- Cymbeline
- “I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.”
- “When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.”
- “To die, to sleep—to sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub, for in this sleep of death, what dreams may come.”
- “It is silliness to live when to live is torment; and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.”- Othello
- “And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banished from myself; and Silvia is myself: banished from her is self from self, a deadly banishment.”
Shakespeare Quotes On Friendship
- “There is flattery in friendship.”- Henry V
- “Thy friendship makes us fresh.”- Henry VI Part 1
- “To me, fair friend, you never can be old.”- Sonnet 104
- “A friend should bear his friend’s infirmities.”- Julius Caesar
- “Most friendship is feigning, most loving is folly.”- As You Like It
- “To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods.”- The Winter’s Tale
- “Keep thy friend Under thy own life’s key.”- All’s Well That Ends Well
- “I would not wish Any companion in the world but you.”- The Tempest
- “Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.”- Henry VIII
- “Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find.”- The Passionate Pilgrim
- “But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all losses are restored and sorrows end.”- Sonnet 30
- “Friendship is constant in all things Save in the office and affairs of love.”- Much Ado About Nothing
- “I count myself in nothing else so happy As in a soul remembering my good friends.”- Richard II
- “Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.”- Troilus and Cressida
- “That which I would discover The law of friendship bids me to conceal.”- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- “I desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends.”- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- “Friendship is constant in all other things / Save in the office and affairs of love.” — Much A Do About Nothing
- “Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel.”- Hamlet
- “Most friendship is faining, most loving mere folly: Then, heigh-ho, the holly. This life is most jolly.”- As You Like It
- “The band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity.”- Antony and Cleopatra
- “Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice And could of men distinguish her election, Sh’ath sealed thee for herself.”- Hamlet
- “Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.”- Hamlet
- “If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not As to thy friends; for when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend?”- The Merchant of Venice
- “To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, Recanting goodness, sorry ere ’tis shown; But where there is true friendship, there needs none.”- Timon of Athens
- “Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare, To dig the dust enclosed heare. Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.”- Shakespeare’s grave
Shakespeare Quotes About Beauty
- “Beauty lives with kindness.”
- “Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.”
- “Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both!”
- “Beauty itself doth of itself persuade the eyes of men without an orator.”
- “The most peerless piece of earth, I think, that e’ er the sun shone bright on.”
- “For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman’s eye?”
- “She’s beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.”
- “Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil. Are empty trunks o’erflourished by the devil.”
- “Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.”
- “Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature’s own sweet and cunning hand laid on.”
- “See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek!”
- “To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey’d, Such seems your beauty still.”
- “Look on beauty, And you shall see ’tis purchased by the weight, Which therein works a miracle in nature, Making them lightest that wear most of it.”
- “Beauty’s a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish’d once, for ever’s lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain, and cost.”
- “If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say, ‘This poet lies; Such heavenly touches ne’er touch’d earthly faces.”
- “What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.”
- “Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour.”
William Shakespeare Quotes About Time
- “There’s a time for all things.”
- “What is past is prologue.”- The Tempest
- “Time … thou ceaseless lackey to eternity.”
- “Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.”
- “Let every man be master of his time.”- Macbeth
- “Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.”
- “Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”
- “O, call back yesterday, bid time return.”- Richard II’
- “I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.”- Richard II
- “Make use of time, let not advantage slip.”-Venus and Adonis
- “We are time’s subjects, and time bids be gone.”- King Henry IV
- “In time we hate that which we often fear.”- Antony and Cleopatra
- “Things without all remedy should be without regard: what’s done is done.”- Macbeth
- “A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.”- Much Ado About Nothing
- “Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber’d oak.”- HenryVI
- “Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.”- Othello
- “Time’s the king of men; he’s both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.”
- “Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.”
- “At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May’s new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.”- Love’s Labour’s Lost
- “Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch’d, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.”- Troilus And Cressida
- “Let’s take the instant by the forward top; For we are old, and on our quick’st decrees The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time Steals ere we can effect them.”- All’s Well That Ends Well
- “Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.”- Sonnet 60
- “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
- “Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?”- Henry IV, Part 2
- “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 fools The 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 tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.”- Macbeth
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Цитаты великого поэта, наполненные остроумием и внутренним миром
105 цитат великого английского поэта Уильяма Шекспира, переживших века, которые позволят посмотреть на гениального драматурга с новой стороны и раскроют новые глубины философии в простых и лаконичных словах.
1. «Любите всех, доверяйте немногим, не делайте ничего плохого».
2. «Дьявол может цитировать Писание для своих целей».
3. «Подозрительность всегда преследует тех, чья совесть отягощена виной».
4. «Грехи других судить Вы так усердно рветесь, начните со своих и до чужих не доберетесь».
5. «Недостаточно поднять слабого, нужно держать его после».
6. «Лучше на три часа раньше, чем на минуту позже».
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7. «Удовольствие и действие заставляют часы казаться короткими».
8. «Дурак думает, что он мудр, но мудрец знает, что он дурак».
9. «И зверю дикому не чуждо состраданье — его не знаю я, а значит я не зверь».
10. «Не в звездах держится наша судьба, а в нас самих».
11. «Весь мир — театр. В нем женщины, мужчины — все актеры. У них свои есть выходы, уходы, и каждый не одну играет роль».
12. «Как далеко эта маленькая свеча бросает его лучи! Так и светит доброе дело в утомленном мире».
13. «Быть иль не быть? Вот в чем вопрос!».
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14. «Вы говорите бесконечное количество ничего».
15. «Всего превыше: верен будь себе».
16. «Слова легки, как ветер; Верных друзей трудно найти».
17. «Кажись цветком и будь змеей под ним».
18. «Мысль — свободна».
19. «Мужчины должны быть такими, какими кажутся».
20. «Не трать свою любовь на кого-то, кто не ценит ее».
21. «От смеха лишь морщины пусть придут!».
22. «Судьба — та, которая тасует карты, но мы играем».
23. «И эта наша жизнь, свободная от суеты и шума, находит голоса в лесных деревьях и книги в ручейках, и поученья в громадных камнях, и добро во всем».
24. «Наше тело — наш сад, а наша воля — садовник в нем».
25. «Любовь тяжелая и легкая, яркая и темная, горячая и холодная, больная и здоровая, спящая и бодрствующая».
26. «Путь истинной любви никогда не бывал гладким».
27. «Разве ты не знаешь, что я женщина? Раз мне пришла мысль — я ее должна высказать!».
28. «Благодарю бога и мою холодную кровь за то, что в этом я похожа на вас: для меня приятнее слушать, как моя собака лает на ворон, чем как мужчина клянется мне в любви».
29. «Жизнь — это история, рассказанная идиотом, полная шума и ярости, но лишенная всякого смысла».
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30. «Мы созданы из вещества того же, Что наши сны. И сном окружена Вся наша маленькая жизнь».
31. «Мне нравится это место, и я могу охотно тратить на него свое время».
32. «Со временем мы ненавидим то, чего часто боимся».
33. «Сравню ли с летним днем твои черты? Но ты милей, умеренней и краше».
34. «Любовь, которую искали, — это хорошо, а вот непрошеная — лучше».
35. «Cлушай многих, говори с несколькими».
36. «Когда приходят печали, они приходят не одинокими лазутчиками, а целыми батальонами!».
37. «Такие мудрые, такие молодые, говорят, никогда не живут долго».
38. «Мы знаем, кто мы есть, но не знаем, кем мы можем быть».
39. «Всем жалуй ухо, голос — лишь немногим».
40. «Тяжело голове, носящей корону».
41. «Если деньги уходят раньше, все пути остаются открытыми».
42. «Смелость — будь моим другом».
43. «Любовь слепа и нас лишает глаз. Не вижу я того, что вижу ясно. Я видел красоту, но каждый раз Понять не мог, что дурно, что прекрасно».
44. «Остерегайтесь, мой господин, ревности; это зеленоглазое чудовище насмехается над мясом, которым питается».
45. «Будь верен самому себе, и, следственно, как дважды два — четыре, ни перед кем не будешь ты фальшив».
46. «Будь таким же великим в действиях, каким ты был в мыслях».
47. «Многие истинные слова были сказаны в шутку».
48. «Любовь к себе, мой сеньор, — не такой гнусный грех, как пренебрежение собой».
49. «Моя, как море, безгранична нежность и глубока любовь. Чем больше я Тебе даю, тем больше остается: ведь обе — бесконечны».
50. «Не любят тех, кто не показывает свою любовь».
51. «Любовь смотрит не глазами, а сердцем, поэтому слепым и изображают крылатого Купидона».
52. «Любовь слишком молода, чтобы знать, что такое совесть».
53. «Любило ли мое сердце до сих пор? Оставь это, зрение! Ибо я никогда не видел истинную красоту до этой ночи».
54. «Я полюбил в тебе порок и недостатки, Не добродетели в тебе я полюбил!».
55. «Любовь успокаивает, как солнечный свет после дождя».
56. «Действие — красноречие».
57. «Любовь — это просто безумие».
58. «Как ты запыхался, когда у тебя есть дыхание, чтобы сказать мне, что ты запыхался?».
59. «Жизнь утомительна, как дважды рассказанная сказка, раздражает тупое ухо сонного человека».
60. «О ты, невидимый дух вина, если у тебя нет собственного имени, — мы назовем тебя дьяволом!».
61. «Господи, какие глупцы эти смертные!».
62. «Цена похвал невелика бывает, Когда хвалимый тем же отвечает, Но если враг нас вынужден хвалить, Такой хвалою можно дорожить!».
63. «Ошибка, дорогой Брут, не в наших звездах, а в нас самих».
64. «Нет ничего хорошего или плохого, но мышление делает так».
65. «Горацио, на Небесах и на Земле больше вещей, чем вы мечтали в вашей философии».
66. «Друг — это тот, кто знает тебя таким, какой ты есть, понимает, где ты был, принимает то, кем ты стал, и все же мягко позволяет тебе расти».
67. «Я должен быть жестоким, чтобы быть добрым: так начинается плохое, а худшее остается позади».
68. «Слова легки, как ветер; Верных друзей трудно найти».
69. «Рассказ ваш, сэр, от глухоты излечит».
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70. «Наши сомнения — это наши предатели. Они заставляют нас терять то, что мы, возможно, могли бы выиграть, если бы не боялись попробовать».
71. «Как беден тот, кто небогат терпеньем! Какая рана заживает сразу?».
72. «Нет наследия столь же богатого, как честность».
73. «Я зря потратил свое время, а теперь время тратит меня зря».
74. «Мы такие вещи, как мечты, и наша маленькая жизнь окутана сном».
75. «Одно прикосновение природы делает весь мир родным».
76. «Не будь ни заемщиком, ни кредитором, давая ссуду, часто теряешь вдвойне: и ее, и друга».
77. «Я несу очарованную жизнь».
78. «Не слишком разжигайте печь для своих врагов, иначе вы сгорите в ней сами».
79. «Мудро и медленно. Они спотыкаются, которые бегут быстро».
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80. «Где мало слов, там вес они имеют».
81. «Все сделано хорошо и с осторожностью, освобождает себя от страха».
82. «Доброе имя — праздная и совершенно ложная тягота, часто его приобретают без всяких заслуг и теряют без оснований».
83. «Ожидание — это корень всех страданий».
84. «Мой язык скажет гнев моего сердца, иначе мое сердце, скрывающее его, разорвется».
85. «Краткость — душа остроумия».
86. «Можно улыбаться, улыбаться и быть подлецом».
87. «Так всех нас совесть делает трусами».
88. «Не пытайтесь направить того, кто хочет выбрать свой собственный путь».
89. «И ты, Брут?».
90. «Мудрый человек не садится оплакивать, но с радостью приступает к своей задаче исправить нанесенный ущерб».
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91. «Апрель вложил во все дух юности».
92. «Друзья, дружбу которых вы уже испытали, зацепите их себе за душу стальными крюками».
93. «Я бы не хотел ни одного спутника в мире, кроме вас».
94. «Чем страсть сильнее, тем печальнее бывает у нее конец».
95. «Прежде чем прикоснуться к твоим губам, я хочу коснуться твоего сердца, а прежде чем покорить твое тело, я хочу покорить твою любовь».
96. «О, не клянись луной непостоянной, Луной, свой вид меняющей так часто. Чтоб и твоя любовь не изменилась».
97. «Любовь — это дым, сотканный из вздохов».
98. «Каждый может контролировать страдание, кроме тех, кто его чувствует».
99. «Любовь неизменна часами и неделями, но длится до самого конца».
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100. «Посмотрите, как она подпирает руку щекой. О, если бы я был перчаткой на руке, Чтобы я мог коснуться этой щеки!».
101. «Спокойной ночи, спокойной ночи! Разлука такая сладкая печаль, Что я скажу спокойной ночи до завтра».
102. «Невидимые раны — самые глубокие».
103. «Та любовь не любовь, которая меняется, находя изменения, или сбивается с пути, подчиняясь обстоятельствам».
104. «Я знаю тысячу выдающихся людей, которые льстили людям, никогда не заставляя себя полюбить себя, и тысячу других, которых люди любили, не объясняя почему».
105. «В минуте много дней».
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To be, or not to be, that is the question.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
There is no darkness but ignorance.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
They do not love that do not show their love.
An overflow of good converts to bad.
Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
We are time’s subjects, and time bids be gone.
To do a great right do a little wrong.
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
What is past is prologue.
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
Men’s vows are women’s traitors!
Love is too young to know what conscience is.
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
Farewell, fair cruelty.
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
My pride fell with my fortunes.
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If you are searching for William Shakespeare quotes on life lessons? You have come to the right place. Here are the inspirational Shakespeare quotes on life lessons and a short biography. William Shakespeare was an English writer, playwright, and actor. He is generally viewed as the best author in the English language and the world’s greatest dramatist.
William Shakespeare was born baptized on 26 April 1564. His date of birth is obscure, yet is traditionally observed on 23 April, Saint George’s Day. At 18 years old, he wedded Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna and twins Hamnet and Judith. At some point somewhere in the range of 1585 and 1592, he started a fruitful profession in London as an on-screen character, author, and part-proprietor of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, later known as the King’s Men. He seems to have retired to Stratford, where he died three years later on 23 April 1616 at age 52.
Shakespeare is regularly called England’s national poet and the «Bard of Avon» (or simply «the Bard»). His surviving works, including coordinated efforts, comprised of nearly 39 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a couple of different sections, some of the uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into each major living language and are performed more regularly than those of some other dramatists. Check out the following best William Shakespeare quotes on life lessons, success, love, death, happiness, friendship, time, beauty, and others.
Inspirational Shakespeare Quotes On Life Lessons
1. Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. — William Shakespeare
2. Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. — William Shakespeare
3. Be great in act, as you have been in thought. — William Shakespeare
4. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves. — William Shakespeare
5. 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
6. They do not love, they do not show their love. — William Shakespeare
7. Like madness is the glory of this life. — William Shakespeare
8. Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say goodnight till it be tomorrow. — William Shakespeare
9. Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me. — William Shakespeare
10. If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone. — William Shakespeare
11. Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it. — William Shakespeare
12. Listen to many, speak to a few. — William Shakespeare
13. How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world. — William Shakespeare
Famous William Shakespeare Quotes On Life Lessons
14. There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. — William Shakespeare
15. All’s well that ends well. — William Shakespeare
16. Expectation is the root of all heartache. — William Shakespeare
17. A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. — William Shakespeare
18. Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. — William Shakespeare
19. Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. — William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare Quotes On Success
20. Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. — William Shakespeare
21. Take pains. Be perfect. — William Shakespeare
22. Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall. — William Shakespeare
23. There’s an old saying that applies to me: you can’t lose a game if you don’t play the game. — William Shakespeare
24. Conscience doth make cowards of us all. — William Shakespeare
25. Have more than you show, speak less than you know. — William Shakespeare
26. Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end. — William Shakespeare
Top William Shakespeare Quotes On Life Lessons
27. My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break. — William Shakespeare
28. Life … is a tale. Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. — William Shakespeare
29. False face must hide what the false heart doth know. — William Shakespeare
30. Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. — William Shakespeare
31. We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. — William Shakespeare
32. The lady doth protest too much, methinks. — William Shakespeare
33. I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins and worse remains behind. — William Shakespeare
34. Love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. — William Shakespeare
35. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. — William Shakespeare
36. When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions! — William Shakespeare
37. Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through fog and filthy air. — William Shakespeare
38. All that glitters is not gold, Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold. But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold. — William Shakespeare
39. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact. — William Shakespeare
40. The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. — William Shakespeare
41. For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo. — William Shakespeare
42. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee. — William Shakespeare
43. The love that follows us sometimes is our trouble, Which still we thank as love. — William Shakespeare
44. When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools. — William Shakespeare
Best William Shakespeare Quotes On Life Lessons
45. It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. — William Shakespeare
46. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires. — William Shakespeare
47. God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another. — Shakespeare
48. Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace. — William Shakespeare
49. My only love sprung from my only hate. — William Shakespeare
50. To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. — William Shakespeare
51. Madness in great ones must not unwatched go. — William Shakespeare
52. Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me. — William Shakespeare
53. Men in rage strike those that wish them best. — William Shakespeare
54. I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange? — William Shakespeare
55. I can see he’s not in your good books,’ said the messenger. ‘No, and if he were I would burn my library. — William Shakespeare
Romantic William Shakespeare Quotes On Love
56. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. — William Shakespeare
57. 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. — William Shakespeare
58. Don’t waste your love on somebody, who doesn’t value it. — William Shakespeare
59. Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks. But bears it out even to the edge of doom. — William Shakespeare
60. Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow. — William Shakespeare
61. Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. — William Shakespeare
62. I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me. — William Shakespeare
63. They do not love that do not show their love. — William Shakespeare
64. Let me not to the marriage of true minds, Admit impediments. Love is not love. Which alters when it alteration finds. — William Shakespeare
65. The course of true love never did run smooth. — William Shakespeare
66. Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow. — William Shakespeare
67. Love is not love, Which alters when it alteration finds. — William Shakespeare
68. Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change. — William Shakespeare
69. And yet, to say the truth, reason, and love keep little company together nowadays. — William Shakespeare
70. 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. — William Shakespeare
71. Though she be but little, she is fierce! — William Shakespeare
72. If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking and you beat love down. — William Shakespeare
73. Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- it’s everything except what it is! — William Shakespeare
74. 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
75.Love me or hate me, both are in my favor, if you love me, I’ll always be in your heart, if you hate me, I’ll always be in your mind. — William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare Quotes On Happiness
76. With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. — William Shakespeare
77. One may smile, and smile, and be a villain. — William Shakespeare
78. I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest. — William Shakespeare
79. These violent delights have violent ends. — William Shakespeare
80. I wish you all the joy that you can wish. — William Shakespeare
81. Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. I was but little happy if I could say how much. — William Shakespeare
Short Shakespeare Quotes On Life Lessons
82. Hell is empty and all the devils are here. — William Shakespeare
83. Love is merely a madness. — William Shakespeare
84. Brevity is the soul of wit. — William Shakespeare
85. Journeys end in lover’s meetings. — William Shakespeare
86. What’s done cannot be undone. — William Shakespeare
87. We know what we are, but not what we may be. — William Shakespeare
88. Dispute not with her: she is lunatic. — William Shakespeare
89. My soul is in the sky. — William Shakespeare
90. You speak an infinite deal of nothing. — William Shakespeare
91. Thus with a kiss, I die. — William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare Quotes About Death and Grief
92. These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume. — William Shakespeare
93. I’ll follow thee and make a heaven of hell, To die upon the hand I love so well. — William Shakespeare
94. To weep is to make less the depth of grief. — William Shakespeare
95. To die, to sleep — To sleep, perchance to dream — ay, there’s the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come. — William Shakespeare
96. Nor shall Death brag thou wander’ st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest. — William Shakespeare
97. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married. — William Shakespeare
98. Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it breaks. — William Shakespeare
99. 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
100. The robb’d that smiles, steals something from the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief. — William Shakespeare
101. So wise so young, they say, do never live long. — William Shakespeare
102. Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come. — William Shakespeare
103. 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. — William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare Quotes On Friendship
104. He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need: If thou sorrow, he will weep; If thou wake, he cannot sleep: Thus of every grief in the heart. He with thee doth bear a part. — William Shakespeare
105. A faithful friend from a flattering foe. — William Shakespeare
106. Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. — William Shakespeare
107. Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. — William Shakespeare
108. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. William Shakespeare
109. Give me that man that is not passion’s slave, and I will wear him in my heart’s core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee. — William Shakespeare
110. A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still gently allows you to grow. — William Shakespeare
Funny William Shakespeare Quotes On Life Lessons
111. Come, thou monarch of the vine, Plumpy Bacchus with pink eye! — William Shakespeare
112. Lord, what fools these mortals be! — William Shakespeare
113. Thou art a very ragged Wart. — William Shakespeare
114. I do desire we may be better strangers. — William Shakespeare
115. Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit. — William Shakespeare
116. We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. — William Shakespeare
117. I wish you all joy of the worm. — William Shakespeare
118. Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers. — William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare Quotes About Time
119. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day today. To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools. — William Shakespeare
120. I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. — William Shakespeare
121. Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. — William Shakespeare
122. In time we hate that which we often fear. — William Shakespeare
123. I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it. — William Shakespeare
124. Time is very slow for those who wait. Very fast for those who are scared. Very long for those who celebrate. But for those who love, time is eternal. — William Shakespeare
125. If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not. — William Shakespeare
126. Time travels at different speeds for different people. I can tell you who time strolls for, who it trots for, who it gallops for, and who it stops cold for. — William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare Quotes About Beauty
127. Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night. — William Shakespeare
128. For I have sworn thee fair and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night. — William Shakespeare
129. Death, that hath suck’d the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. — William Shakespeare
130. God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. — William Shakespeare
131. Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of divinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest — A dammed saint, an honourable villain! — William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare Quotes From Plays
132. Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage. — William Shakespeare
133. I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum. — William Shakespeare
134. This above all: to thine own self be true. — William Shakespeare
135. There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. — William Shakespeare
136. My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. — William Shakespeare
137. The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers. — William Shakespeare
138. Though this be madness, yet there is method isn’t. — William Shakespeare
139. O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams. — William Shakespeare
140. 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
William Shakespeare Quotes About Music and Nature
141. 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
142. If music be the food of love, play on. — William Shakespeare
143. I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine. — William Shakespeare
144. Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince; And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. — William Shakespeare
Wisdom William Shakespeare Quotes On Life Lessons
145. By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. — William Shakespeare
146. Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast. — William Shakespeare
147. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend. More than cool reason ever comprehends. — William Shakespeare
148. Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble! — William Shakespeare
149. The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. — William Shakespeare
150. Women may fall when there’s no strength in men. — William Shakespeare
151. Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man’s son doth know. — William Shakespeare
152. I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine. — William Shakespeare
153. When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. — William Shakespeare
154. A sad tale’s best for winter: I have one of sprites and goblins. — William Shakespeare
155. Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. — William Shakespeare
156. Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings. — William Shakespeare
157. A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. — William Shakespeare
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