Quotes By William Shakespeare

I bear a charmed life.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Parting is such sweet sorrow.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

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.

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.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

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

By that sin fell the angels.

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.