William shakespeare quotes

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

In struggling with misfortunes lies the true proof of virtue.

Let gentleness my strong enforcement be.

I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.

Welcome ever smiles, and farewell goes out sighing.

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.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge.

If your mind dislike anything obey it

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.

I cannot do it without comp[u]ters.

Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.

People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.

Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

There's a time for all things.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

All the world is a stage and we are merely players.

My friends were poor, but honest, so's my love.

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

Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.

Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.

Beauty lives with kindness.

Experience is by industry achieved, And perfected by the swift course of time.

Gently to hear, kindly to judge.

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

He says, he loves my daughter; I think so too; for never gaz'd the moon Upon the water, as he'll stand and read, As 'twere, my daughter's eyes: and, to be plain, I think, there is not half a kiss to choose, Who loves another best.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

The leopard does not change his spots.

Love runs away from those chasing her, and those who run away, she throws herself on his neck.

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair.

This thing of darkness I acknowlege mine. There is nothing more confining than the prison we don't know we are in.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.

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

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

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

All's well if all ends well.

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

Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.

Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.

Being your slave what should I do but tend, Upon the hours, and times of your desire? I have no precious time at all to spend; Nor services to do till you require.

Every why has a wherefore.

The instruments of darkness tell us truths.

Love does not see with the eyes, but with the soul.

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

Nothing comes from doing nothing.

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.

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

the time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were too long.

a girl takes too much time to love and a few seconds to hate. but a boy takes a few seconds to love and too much time to hate.

Never play with the feelings of others, because you may win the game but the risk is that you will surely lose the person for life time

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

We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.

Words spoken can not be recalled so think twice before you speak.

Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.

Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.

Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

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

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

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.

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.

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.'

Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream

Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge, That no king can corrupt.

Strong reasons make strong actions.

I wish you all the joy that you can wish.

The Eyes are the window to your soul

Desperate times breed desperate measures

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.

Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

You know who you are, but know not who you could be.

I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

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

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

If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.

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

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

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

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

Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.

Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends.

The cheek Is apter than the tongue to tell an errand.

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

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

It is silliness to live when to live is torment.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

It is a sin to be a mocker.

Laughing faces do not mean that there is absence of sorrow! But it means that they have the ability to deal with it

No profit grows where no pleasure is taken.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

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

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

And nothing is, but what is not.

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.

To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!

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

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves.

I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.

Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.

Grief makes one hour ten.

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

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

When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone. When I was sure of losing, I won. When I needed people the most, they left me. When I learnt to dry my tears, I found a shoulder to cry on. And when I mastered the art of hating, somebody started loving me.

The best is yet to come.