Quotes By William Shakespeare

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

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.

Speak low, if you speak love.

What is past is prologue.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

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.