William Shakespeare Quotes

Speak low, if you speak love.

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.

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

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy rather in power than use; and keep thy friend under thine own life's key; be checked for silence, but never taxed for speech.

Parting is such sweet sorrow.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Nothing can come of nothing.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

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

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

He is evil by his very nature.

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.

He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need: If thou sorrow, he will weep; If thou wake, he cannot sleep: Thus of every grief in heart He with thee does bear a part. These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.