Top 4037 Quotes & Sayings by William Shakespeare - Page 2
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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
In time we hate that which we often fear.
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
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.
O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
There is no darkness but ignorance.
I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
Such as we are made of, such we be.
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.
Men's vows are women's traitors!
Farewell, fair cruelty.
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
I was adored once too.
If music be the food of love, play on.
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
What is past is prologue.
They do not love that do not show their love.
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
This above all; to thine own self be true.
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
Now is the winter of our discontent.
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
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