William Shakespeare Quotes

Truly the souls of men are full of dread: Ye cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of fear.

I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.

To pore upon a book, to seek the light of truth.

You have but mistook me all the while... I live by bread like you, taste grief, feel want, need friends. Conditioned thus how can you call me king?

Be to yourself as you would to your friend.

Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.

Bid the dishonest man mend himself; if he mend, he is no longer dishonest.

To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature.

Tis often seen Adoption strives with nature; and choice breeds A native slip to us from foreign lands.

Poor wretches that depend On greatness' favor, dream as I have done; Wake, and find nothing.

For my part, I may speak it to my shame, I have a truant been to chivalry; And so I hear he doth account me too.

Sick in the world's regard, wretched and low.

Is this government of Britain's Isle, and this the royalty of Albion's King?

Fairies use flowers for their charactery.

If ever (as that ever may be near) you meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy, then shall you know the wounds invisible that love's keen, arrows make.

More can I bear than you dare execute.

Our enemies are our outward consciences.

Haste is needful in a desperate case.

By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust ensuing danger; as, by proof, we see the waters swell before a boisterous storm.

Kindness nobler ever than revenge.

Light and lust are deadly enemies.

The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.

As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor.

Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.

Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things.

Let them obey that knows not how to rule.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear

What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion.

You must confine yourself within the modest limits of order.

Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, more than quick words, do move a woman's mind.

The devil knew what he did when he made men politic; he crossed himself by it.

The sweets we wish for, turn to loathed sours, Even in the moment that we call them ours.

All pride is willing pride.

Love reasons without reason.

Good reasons must of force give place to better.

Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's and truth's.

The Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind.

A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion-- To pray for them that have done scathe to us.

He that dies this year is quit for the next.

It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.

Either our history shall with full mouth Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave, Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth, Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph.

Best men oft are moulded out of faults.

Many dream not to find, neither deserve, and yet are steeped in favors.

Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything.

Friendship's full of dregs.

Gold--what can it not do, and undo?

However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God.

God is our fortress, in whose conquering name Let us resolve to scale their flinty bulwarks.

To some kind of men their graces serve them but as enemies.

An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.