William Shakespeare Quotes

William Shakespeare Quotes
William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 - 23 April 1616), was an English poet and playwright, widely acknowledged as the greatest writer of all time's. William Shakespeare, often called England's national poet. Some of his surviving works include some collaborations of 38 plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long narrative poems. His work has been translated in all major languages and are performed by  many times than other writers.

Though Shakespeare do not got much appreciation through his lifetime, but the praise for his works came from 19th century and his work is now widely acknowledged. Here I have tried compile down some of William Shakespeare quotes, hope you will like.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare

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

An overflow of good converts to bad.
William Shakespeare

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

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

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
William Shakespeare

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.
William Shakespeare

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
William Shakespeare

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

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

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

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

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
William Shakespeare

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

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

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
William Shakespeare

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

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

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
William Shakespeare

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

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

I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.
William Shakespeare

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

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
William Shakespeare

I will praise any man that will praise me.
William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love, play on.
William Shakespeare

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
William Shakespeare

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

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
William Shakespeare

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

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.
William Shakespeare

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
William Shakespeare

Let no such man be trusted.
William Shakespeare

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William Shakespeare

Listen to many, speak to a few.
William Shakespeare

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

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
William Shakespeare

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
William Shakespeare

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
William Shakespeare

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
William Shakespeare

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
William Shakespeare

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
William Shakespeare

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
William Shakespeare

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
William Shakespeare

No legacy is so rich as honesty.
William Shakespeare

Nothing can come of nothing.
William Shakespeare

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
William Shakespeare

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
William Shakespeare

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

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
William Shakespeare

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
William Shakespeare

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

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

Speak low, if you speak love.
William Shakespeare

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
William Shakespeare

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
William Shakespeare

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
William Shakespeare

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

The golden age is before us, not behind us.
William Shakespeare

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
William Shakespeare

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.
William Shakespeare

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
William Shakespeare

The valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
William Shakespeare

There is no darkness but ignorance.
William Shakespeare

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
William Shakespeare

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

They do not love that do not show their love.
William Shakespeare

They say miracles are past.
William Shakespeare

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

To do a great right do a little wrong.
William Shakespeare

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
William Shakespeare

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
William Shakespeare

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
William Shakespeare

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
William Shakespeare

What is past is prologue.
William Shakespeare

What's done can't be undone.
William Shakespeare

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

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

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
William Shakespeare

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

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
William Shakespeare