William Shakespeare Quotes

Jesters do often prove prophets.

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.

When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.

For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.

Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.

I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.

Though I be but prince of Wales, yet I am the king of courtesy.

Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.

O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealing teaches them suspect The thoughts of others!

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves.

I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy, To share with me in glory any more: Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.

Some there be that shadows kiss; Such have but a shadow's bliss.

I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.

Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects treachery?

Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord. Hamlet: As woman's love.

Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve ... the more merit in your bounty.

A little water clears us of this deed.

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

Strong reasons make strong actions.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Say as you think and speak it from your souls.

Retire me to my Milan, where Every third thought shall be my grave.

Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.

love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.

Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Though she be but little, she is fierce!

Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.

Sweet are the uses of adversity

There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

Affection is a coal that must be cooled; else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire.

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

the time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were too long.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

The wounds invisible that Love's keen arrows make.

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.

What's done can't be undone.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.