Quotes By William Shakespeare

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

Death is a fearful thing.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I bear a charmed life.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

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

'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.

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

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

No legacy is so rich as honesty.