Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
- William Shakespeare
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
- William Shakespeare
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
- William Shakespeare
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
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
- William Shakespeare
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
- William Shakespeare
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
- William Shakespeare
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
- William Shakespeare
If music be the food of love, play on.
- William Shakespeare
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
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
- William Shakespeare
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
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
- William Shakespeare
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
- William Shakespeare
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
- William Shakespeare
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
- William Shakespeare
Such as we are made of, such we be.
- William Shakespeare
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
- William Shakespeare
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
- William Shakespeare
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
- William Shakespeare
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
- William Shakespeare
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
- William Shakespeare
Brevity is the soul of wit.
- William Shakespeare
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
- William Shakespeare
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
- William Shakespeare
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
- William Shakespeare
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
- William Shakespeare
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
- William Shakespeare
Boldness be my friend.
- William Shakespeare
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
- William Shakespeare
Though she be but little, she is fierce.
- William Shakespeare
It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.
- William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
- William Shakespeare
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
- William Shakespeare
This above all; to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
- William Shakespeare
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
To do a great right do a little wrong.
- William Shakespeare
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
- William Shakespeare
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
- William Shakespeare
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
- William Shakespeare
Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
- William Shakespeare
Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
- William Shakespeare
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
- William Shakespeare
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
- William Shakespeare
I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
- William Shakespeare
Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
- William Shakespeare
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
- William Shakespeare
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
- William Shakespeare
There's many a man has more hair than wit.
- William Shakespeare
No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
- William Shakespeare
There is no darkness but ignorance.
- William Shakespeare
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
- William Shakespeare
Death is a fearful thing.
- William Shakespeare
We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
- William Shakespeare
Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
- William Shakespeare
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
- William Shakespeare
They do not love that do not show their love.
- William Shakespeare
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
- William Shakespeare
The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.
- William Shakespeare
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
- William Shakespeare
Listen to many, speak to a few.
- William Shakespeare
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
- William Shakespeare
Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
- William Shakespeare
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
- William Shakespeare
I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
- William Shakespeare
What's done can't be undone.
- William Shakespeare
What is past is prologue.
- William Shakespeare
'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
- William Shakespeare
We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
- William Shakespeare
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
- William Shakespeare
Farewell, fair cruelty.
- William Shakespeare
I must be cruel, only to be kind.
- William Shakespeare
The wheel is come full circle.
- William Shakespeare
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
- William Shakespeare
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
- William Shakespeare
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
- William Shakespeare
O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
- William Shakespeare
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
- William Shakespeare
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
- William Shakespeare
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
- William Shakespeare
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
- William Shakespeare
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
- William Shakespeare
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
- William Shakespeare
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
- William Shakespeare
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
- William Shakespeare
Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
- William Shakespeare
O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
- William Shakespeare
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
- William Shakespeare
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
But men are men; the best sometimes forget.
- William Shakespeare
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
- William Shakespeare
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
- William Shakespeare
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
- William Shakespeare