Quotes By William Shakespeare

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?

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

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.

Nothing can come of nothing.

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.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

Let no such man be trusted.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

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

Men's vows are women's traitors!

There is no darkness but ignorance.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!