William Shakespeare Quotes
English Poet, Dramatist and Actor
Date of Birth(App:)- April 26, 1564
Date of death- April 23, 1616
“A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.”
“Words are easy, like the wind. Faithful friends are hard to find.”
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.”
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
“We know what we are, but not what we may be.”
“I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed.”
“Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?”
“How far that little candle throws his beams. So shines a good deed in a weary world.”
“Love is the greatest of dreams, yet the worst of nightmares.”
“Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.”
“Be great in act, as you have been in thought, – suit the action to the word and the word to the action.”
“O! how much more doth beauty beauteous seem, by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!”
“The business that we love, we rise betimes, and go to it with delight.”
“Too often those who entertain ambition expel remorse and nature.”
“Care is no cure, but rather a corrosive for things that are not to be remedied.”
“How of the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!”
“The earth that is nature’s other is her tomb.”
“They lose the world who buy if with much care.”
“In delay we waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.”
“Action is eloquence; the eyes of the ignorant are more learned than their ears.”
“All’s well that ends well; still the finis is the crown.”
“Let the end try the man.”
“I dote on his very absence.”
“Our doudts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”
“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”
“Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises.”
“Our enemies are our outward consciences.”
“The eyes of women are prometheam fires.”
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on.”
“Your face is a book where men may read strange matters.”
“Experience is a jewel, and it had need be so, for it is often purchased at an infinite rate.”
“A lover’s eyes will gaze an eagle blind.”
“Our wills and fates do so contrary run, that our devices still are overthrown; our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.”
“The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.” — Hamlet, I, 3
“Like madness is the glory of this life.”
“Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.” — Macbeth
“Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.”
“How quickly nature falls to revolt when gold becomes her object.”
“O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath; a goodly apple rotten at the heart!”
“He is not great, who is not greatly good.”
“The mind of guilt is full of scorpions.”
“The love of heaven makes one heavenly.”
“Guiltiness will speak though tongues were out of use.”
“Our holy lives must win a new world’s crown.”
“Mine honour is my life, both grow in one; take honour from me and my life is done.”
“Heaven, the treasury of everlasting joy.”
“How use doth breed a habit in a man.”
“To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.”