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

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

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

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and the one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

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

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

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

By that sin fell the angels.

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

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

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

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

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

Expectation is the root of all heartache.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

Farewell, fair cruelty.

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

For I can raise no money by vile means.

For my part, it was Greek to me.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

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

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

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

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

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

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

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

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

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

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

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

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

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

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

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

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

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?

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

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

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

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

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.

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

There's many a man has more hair than wit.

There's place and means for every man alive.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

To be, or not to be: that is the question.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

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

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

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.

What's done can't be undone.

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

all quotes on this page are by ~ William Shakespeare

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