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William Shakespeare Quotes

Total quotes: 79
“You have such a February face,
So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness.”
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
Tagged: character, Mood, Coldness
“Let us once lose our oaths to find ourselves, or else we lose ourselves to keep our oaths.”
— Lord Berowne, Love's Labour's Lost
“Stars, hide your fires;
Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
— William Shakespeare, Macbeth
Tagged: Concealment, desires, hiding plans, Poetic
“Make not your thoughts your prisons.”
— William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
Tagged: Free Your Thoughts, Freedom
“This above all: to thine own self be true.”
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Tagged: shakespeare, Be yourself, Advice, Inspirational
“Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.”
— William Shakespeare, The Complete Dramatic And Poetical Works Of William Shakespeare, Volume 2
Tagged: Deception, Innocence, Pretentions, strength, Bravery
“Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.”
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Tagged: Patience, shakespeare, Time
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
— William Shakespeare, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Knickerbocker Classics)
Tagged: Hell, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking.”
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Tagged: shakespeare, Love, rough
“Did my heart ever love anyone before this moment? My eyes were liars, then, because I never saw true beauty before tonight.”
— Romeo Montague, Romeo and Juliet
Tagged: Pickup Lines, True Love, Only One Apple To My Eye
“You outshine other women like a white dove in the middle of a flock of crows.”
— Romeo Montague, Romeo and Juliet
Tagged: Pickup Lines, You're The Most Beautiful Person In The World
“Truth is too scarce to make societies secure. But, one thing is fairly secure, domestic peace will accurst; this is the riddle that informs all the wisdom of the world.”
— Duke Vincentio, Measure for Measure
Tagged: Core Patterns of the World, Human Nature, Underpinnings of Society
“What angel shall bless this unworthy husband? He cannot thrive unless her prayers, whom heaven delights to hear and loves to grant, reprieve him from the wrath of greatest justice.”
— Countess of Rousillon, All's Well That Ends Well
Tagged: Creative Mercy
“So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem.”
— William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Tagged: Sister Love, grow together
“Young men’s love then lies
Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.”
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet: The First Quarto, 1597 (Classic Reprint)
Tagged: William Shakespeare, Shake Quotes, William Shakes
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
— William Shakespeare, As You Like It
Tagged: Wisdom, Fools, stupidity, shakespeare
“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.”
— William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
Tagged: shakespeare, Heartbreak, emotions
“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”
— William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
Tagged: shakespeare, good deeds, kindness
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
— William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Tagged: Love, True Love, Cupid, romance, Eyes
“I love to hear your beautiful voice,
And I love to look on your handsome shape. 
All of your good qualities move me
On first sight they make me want swear that I love you. ”
— Titania, A Midnight Summer Nights Dream
Tagged: Love, Romantic Lines, Romantic Poetry
“It is very much lamented, Brutus
That you have no such mirrors us will turn
Your hidden worthiness into your eye
That you might see your shadow.”
— Julius Caesar, Julius Caesar
Tagged: Life, Worthiness
“Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.”
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Tagged: what anxiety feels like, Care, anxiety in literature, Love, restlessness, worry
“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
— William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Tagged: shakespeare, Fear, Greatness, Success
“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Tagged: shakespeare, Heaven, Earth, Philosophy
“There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game.”
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Tagged: shakespeare, participation, losers, winners
“For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds”
— William Shakespeare, The Sonnets
Tagged: shakespeare, sweet, sour, beauty
“Time travels at different speeds for different people. I can tell you who time strolls for, who it trots for, who it gallops for, and who it stops cold for.”
— William Shakespeare, As You Like It
Tagged: shakespeare, Time, differences
“Of your philosophy you make no use. If you give place to accidental evils.”
— Cassius, Julius Caesar
Tagged: Obstacles
“Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.”
— William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
Tagged: shakespeare, cowards, Death, Bravery
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.”
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Tagged: shakespeare, Friendship, Marriage
“The more pity that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.”
— William Shakespeare, As You Like It (The Pelican Shakespeare)
Tagged: William Shakespeare, William Shakes, Shake Quotes
“It is the very error of the moon.
She comes more near the earth
than she was wont. And makes
men mad.”
— William Shakespeare, Lunacy and the Full Moon
Tagged: full moon, Shake Quotes
“This news is old enough, yet it is every day's news.”
— Duke Vincentio, Measure for Measure
Tagged: Old Is New, The Message Repeats Itself, Core Patterns of the World, Has The Message Changed?
“I have to go back to where my heart is.”
— Romeo Montague, Romeo and Juliet
Tagged: I Miss You
“So foul and fair a day I have not seen.”
— Macbeth
Tagged: Sound Pattern: Chiming, Sound Patterns
“Where you're most confident, you're actually most ignorant.”
— Isabella, Measure for Measure
Tagged: Illusions of Confidence, Confidence's Deception
“Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.”
— William Shakespeare
Tagged: Mercy, forgiveness, Nobility
“Why, there's a wench! Come on and kiss me, Kate.”
— Petruchio, The Taming of the Shrew
Tagged: wench, kiss me kate, shakespeare movies
“That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.”
— Juliet, Romeo and Juliet
Tagged: Rose, Names, sweet, shakespeare movies
“If music be the food of love play on.”
— William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Tagged: Shakes Quotes, William Shakes, shakespeare
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