William Shakespeare

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

— William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar, Act 1, scene 2

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

— 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

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

— 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

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

— William Shakespeare

This above all; to thine own self be true.

— William Shakespeare

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

— William Shakespeare

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

— William Shakespeare

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

— William Shakespeare

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

— William Shakespeare

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

— William Shakespeare

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

— William Shakespeare

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.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

— William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 3

To thine own self, be true.

— William Shakespeare

All that glitters is not gold.

— William Shakespeare

Love all, trust a few,Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemyRather in power than use; and keep thy friendUnder thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,But never tax'd for speech.

— William Shakespeare

For I can raise no money by vile means.

— William Shakespeare

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

— 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

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

— William Shakespeare

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

— William Shakespeare

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

— William Shakespeare

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

The course of true love never did run smooth.

— William Shakespeare

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

— William Shakespeare

Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

— William Shakespeare

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

— William Shakespeare

Boldness be my friend.

— William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love, play on.

— William Shakespeare

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

— William Shakespeare

Parting is such sweet sorrow

— William Shakespeare

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

— William Shakespeare

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

— William Shakespeare

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

— William Shakespeare

They do not love that do not show their love.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

— William Shakespeare

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

— William Shakespeare

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

— William Shakespeare

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.

— William Shakespeare

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?

— William Shakespeare

Now is the winter of our discontent.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Brevity is the soul of wit.

— William Shakespeare

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

— William Shakespeare

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

— William Shakespeare

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

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

— William Shakespeare

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

— William Shakespeare

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

— William Shakespeare

All's Well That Ends Well, Act I, scene I