William Shakespeare Quotes

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

This bond is forfeit And lawfully by this the Jew may claim A pound of flesh.

This world's a city full of straying streets, and death's the market-place where each one meets.

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch Which hurts and is desired.

What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyesWould, with themselves, shut up my thoughts...

Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just And he but naked though lock'd up in steel Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be for loan oft loses both itself and friend and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

Thou art a votary to fond desire

All the world's a stage And all the men and women merely players.

If e'er again I meet him beard to beard, he's mine or I am his.

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it.

Why then the world's mine oyster Which I with sword will open.

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

Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures. Lady Macbeth

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win by fearing to attempt.