Quotes By William Shakespeare

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

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

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

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

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

I dote on his very absence.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

Now is the winter of our discontent.

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

There's place and means for every man alive.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

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

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

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

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

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

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.

O, had I but followed the arts!