Top 4037 Quotes & Sayings by William Shakespeare - Page 4

By that sin fell the angels.

I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.

For my part, it was Greek to me.

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

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

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

O, had I but followed the arts!

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

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

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

Nothing can come of nothing.

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

I will praise any man that will praise me.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.

There's place and means for every man alive.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

A smile cures the wounding of a frown.

We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.

Words spoken can not be recalled so think twice before you speak.

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge.

Nothing comes from doing nothing.

Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow

I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!

Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.

Never play with the feelings of others, because you may win the game but the risk is that you will surely lose the person for life time

If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.

Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.

Desperate times breed desperate measures

You know who you are, but know not who you could be.

A light heart lives long.

O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!

Strong reasons make strong actions.

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.

When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone. When I was sure of losing, I won. When I needed people the most, they left me. When I learnt to dry my tears, I found a shoulder to cry on. And when I mastered the art of hating, somebody started loving me.

The Eyes are the window to your soul

Laughing faces do not mean that there is absence of sorrow! But it means that they have the ability to deal with it

Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.

Love does not see with the eyes, but with the soul.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

The best is yet to come.

There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.

Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.

Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.