Quotes By William Shakespeare

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

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.

I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

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.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I will praise any man that will praise me.

Nothing can come of nothing.

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

Men's vows are women's traitors!