Popular William Shakespeare's Quotes And Sayings

Laughing faces do not mean that there is absence of sorrow! But it means that they have the ability to deal with it

Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.

There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone. When I was sure of losing, I won. When I needed people the most, they left me. When I learnt to dry my tears, I found a shoulder to cry on. And when I mastered the art of hating, somebody started loving me.

Never play with the feelings of others, because you may win the game but the risk is that you will surely lose the person for life time

The Eyes are the window to your soul

If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.

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

Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.

Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.

You know who you are, but know not who you could be.

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

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

Nothing comes from doing nothing.

Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow

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

In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge.

Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

Every why has a wherefore.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

a girl takes too much time to love and a few seconds to hate. but a boy takes a few seconds to love and too much time to hate.

The leopard does not change his spots.

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

Strong reasons make strong actions.

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

All the world is a stage and we are merely players.

Beauty lives with kindness.

In struggling with misfortunes lies the true proof of virtue.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

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

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.

Desperate times breed desperate measures

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

Love does not see with the eyes, but with the soul.

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

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

There's a time for all things.

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!

Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends.

I wish you all the joy that you can wish.

To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still.

the time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were too long.

All's well if all ends well.

Love runs away from those chasing her, and those who run away, she throws herself on his neck.

The cheek Is apter than the tongue to tell an errand.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Experience is by industry achieved, And perfected by the swift course of time.

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

It is a sin to be a mocker.

Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.

He says, he loves my daughter; I think so too; for never gaz'd the moon Upon the water, as he'll stand and read, As 'twere, my daughter's eyes: and, to be plain, I think, there is not half a kiss to choose, Who loves another best.

Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.

Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

Verily, I swear, it is better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perked up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow.

Extremity is the trier of spirits.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

Sound trumpets! Let our bloody colours wave! And either victory, or else a grave.

Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge, That no king can corrupt.

You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair.

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

Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.

No profit grows where no pleasure is taken.

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

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently

People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.

Comets importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky And with them scourge the bad revolting stars.

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.

Season your admiration for a while.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say, 'This poet lies; Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'

Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.

I am not prone to weeping as our sex commonly are; the want of which vain dew perchance shall dry your pities; but I have that honorable grief lodged here which burns worse than tears drown.

My desolation does begin to make A better life.

And nothing is, but what is not.

The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon.

The best is yet to come.

My friends were poor, but honest, so's my love.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

Gently to hear, kindly to judge.

The instruments of darkness tell us truths.