30 William Shakespeare Quotes

* The fool don’t think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

* Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

* Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

* Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

* The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

* Doubt thou the stars are fire. Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar.

But never doubt I love.

* I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!

* This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

* There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

* Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

* When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.

* We know what we are, but not what we may be.

* All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.

* Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

* You speak an infinite deal of nothing.

* Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come. 

* My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.

* Though she be but little, she is fierce!

* By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.

* My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep, the more I give to thee,

the more I have, for both are infinite.

* These violent delights have violent ends and in their triump die, like fire and powder

which, as they kiss, consume.

* My only love sprung from my only hate!

Too early seen unknown, and known too late!

Prodigious birth of love it is to me,

That I must love a loathed enemy.

* Lord, what fools these mortals be!

* Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.

* All that glisters is not gold,

Often have you heard that told,

Many a man his life hath sold

But my outside to behold,

Gilded tombs do worms enfold.

* Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,

That I shall say good night till it be morrow. 

* Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.