Quotes By William Shakespeare

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

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?

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

They do not love that do not show their love.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

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

For my part, it was Greek to me.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

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

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

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.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!