Quotes By William Shakespeare

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.

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

'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.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

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.

If music be the food of love, play on.

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.

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

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.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

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

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.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

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

By that sin fell the angels.

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