William Shakespeare Quotes

The course of true love never did run smooth.

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

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

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

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

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.

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

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

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

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

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

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

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

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

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

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

If music be the food of love, play on.

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 wheel is come full circle.

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.

Expectation is the root of all heartache.

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.

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

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

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