Quotes By William Shakespeare

The valiant never taste of death but once.

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

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

How well he's read, to reason against reading!

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

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

By that sin fell the angels.

Speak low, if you speak love.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

What is past is prologue.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

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

Life's 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.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

If music be the food of love, play on.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

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

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

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.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.