Top 4037 Quotes & Sayings by William Shakespeare - Page 3
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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
An overflow of good converts to bad.
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
Let no such man be trusted.
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
I dote on his very absence.
I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.
I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
The wheel is come full circle.
'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?
He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
But men are men; the best sometimes forget.
Thou know'st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.
Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
There's many a man has more hair than wit.
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
For I can raise no money by vile means.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.
Give thy thoughts no tongue.
I bear a charmed life.
He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
They say miracles are past.
How well he's read, to reason against reading!
Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
I must be cruel, only to be kind.
Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
Death is a fearful thing.
But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
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