Quotes By William Shakespeare

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

Death is a fearful thing.

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

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

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

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

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

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

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.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

I bear a charmed life.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

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.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

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

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

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