William Shakespeare Quotes
Born: April 23, 1564
William Shakespeare, the immortal Bard of Avon, remains history’s most profound chronicler of love and human connection. Through sonnets and plays, he dissected the heart’s deepest truths—passion, jealousy, devotion, and loss—revealing love as both a transcendent force and a fragile, human wound. His philosophy held that love is the soul’s highest language, capable of defying time and fate. Shakespeare’s words resonate because they capture the universal ache and ecstasy of bonding, reminding us that every lover’s journey was already written in his verse. His legacy is a timeless mirror held to our most intimate selves.
William Shakespeare Quotes (76)
"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."
— William Shakespeare"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
— 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"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
— William Shakespeare"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
— 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"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."
— William Shakespeare"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones."
— William Shakespeare"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once."
— William Shakespeare"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."
— William Shakespeare"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
— William Shakespeare"As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport."
— William Shakespeare"To do a great right do a little wrong."
— William Shakespeare"No legacy is so rich as honesty."
— William Shakespeare"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
— William Shakespeare"The course of true love never did run smooth."
— 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"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."
— William Shakespeare"Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow."
— William Shakespeare"The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns."
— William Shakespeare"Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better."
— William Shakespeare"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions."
— 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"The empty vessel makes the loudest sound."
— 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"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."
— William Shakespeare"Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven."
— William Shakespeare"How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world."
— William Shakespeare