Quotes By William Shakespeare

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

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

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

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

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

Parting is such sweet sorrow.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

How well he's read, to reason against reading!

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

By that sin fell the angels.

Speak low, if you speak love.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

If music be the food of love, play on.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.