Quotes By William Shakespeare

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.

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

Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

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.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

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.

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

Farewell, fair cruelty.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

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.