Quotes By William Shakespeare

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

Farewell, fair cruelty.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

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

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

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

There's many a man has more hair than wit.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

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

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

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

I will praise any man that will praise me.

Nothing can come of nothing.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

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

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

Let no such man be trusted.

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

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Men's vows are women's traitors!

There is no darkness but ignorance.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.