William Shakespeare Quotes

One man in his time plays many parts.

Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?

He that hath the steerage of my course, Direct my sail.

I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul.

The jury passing on the prisoner's life May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two Guiltier than him they try.

There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.

The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. - Romeo

Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.

O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.

it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance

I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.

When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes.

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets.

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.

The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.

Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.

Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.

The time is out of joint.

A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.

My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.

He that dies pays all debts.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.

Courage mounteth with occasion.

These blessed candles of the night.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

Let no such man be trusted.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

He is well paid that is well satisfied.

For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?

Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.

The soul of this man is his clothes.

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.

What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her?

she shall scant show well that now shows best.

Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.

The play's the thing.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!

thus with a kiss I die

A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.

We cannot all be masters.

What early tongue so sweet saluteth me?

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

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.