William Shakespeare quotes

William Shakespeare

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
William Shakespeare
Great Greatness Born Achieve
"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."
William Shakespeare
Women Man Time World
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
William Shakespeare
Wise Man Fool Wise Man Himself
"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
William Shakespeare
Future Stars Destiny Hold
"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
William Shakespeare
Good Thinking Bad Nothing
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."
William Shakespeare
Hell Empty Here Devils Hell Is
"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures."
William Shakespeare
Life Sea Men Lose
"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones."
William Shakespeare
Good Evil Men Bones
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once."
William Shakespeare
Death Die Never Taste Cowards
"To do a great right do a little wrong."
William Shakespeare
Great Right Wrong Little
"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."
William Shakespeare
God You Yourself Face
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
William Shakespeare
Love Eyes Mind Blind Looks
"The course of true love never did run smooth."
William Shakespeare
Love True Love Never True
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
William Shakespeare
Love Trust Wrong Few
"Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear."
William Shakespeare
Fear Care Things Done Well
"This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
William Shakespeare
Life Shadow Walking Nothing
"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."
William Shakespeare
Man Day Night True
"As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport."
William Shakespeare
Us Flies Gods Sport Wanton
"Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better."
William Shakespeare
Love Good Relationship Better
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
William Shakespeare
Sweet Name Smell Rose
"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."
William Shakespeare
Life Good Nature Everything
"If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?"
William Shakespeare
You Revenge Die Laugh
"Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven."
William Shakespeare
God Knowledge Fly Ignorance Heaven
"What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god."
William Shakespeare
Work God Man Angel
"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."
William Shakespeare
Good Lose Win Us
"No legacy is so rich as honesty."
William Shakespeare
Truth Honesty Rich Legacy
"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."
William Shakespeare
Time Better Late Three
"Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head."
William Shakespeare
Adversity Sweet Ugly Like
"Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow."
William Shakespeare
Good Night Sweet Dating Sorrow
"The love of heaven makes one heavenly."
William Shakespeare
Love Faith Heaven Heavenly
"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs."
William Shakespeare
Love Love Is Smoke Made
"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
William Shakespeare
Nature World Touch Whole Makes
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools."
William Shakespeare
Great Born Cry Fools
"How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world."
William Shakespeare
Good World Candle Naughty
"This above all; to thine own self be true."
William Shakespeare
True Self Own Be True Above
"The empty vessel makes the loudest sound."
William Shakespeare
Loudest Sound Empty Vessel
"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me."
William Shakespeare
Me Time Now Waste
"Nothing can come of nothing."
William Shakespeare
Nothing Come
"The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief."
William Shakespeare
Something Thief Smiles Robbed
"It is a wise father that knows his own child."
William Shakespeare
Wise Father Father's Day Own Child
"Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge."
William Shakespeare
Forgiveness Sweet Mercy True
"Though she be but little, she is fierce."
William Shakespeare
Fierce She Little Though
"The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns."
William Shakespeare
Country Whose Undiscovered Traveler
"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."
William Shakespeare
Wise Me Adversity Men
"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"
William Shakespeare
Patience Poor Did How
"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."
William Shakespeare
Fool Better Witty Wit Foolish
"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."
William Shakespeare
Crown Lies Head Uneasy
"The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream."
William Shakespeare
Shadow Dream Substance Very
"I am not bound to please thee with my answer."
William Shakespeare
I Am Answer Please Am Thee

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