Quotes By William Shakespeare

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

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

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

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

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

Boldness be my friend.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

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

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Expectation is the root of all heartache.

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

I was adored once too.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

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

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

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

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

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

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

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