William Shakespeare Quotes

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."

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

"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."

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

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

"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."

"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."

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."

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

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

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

"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."

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

"As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport."

"To do a great right do a little wrong."

"No legacy is so rich as honesty."

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."

"The course of true love never did run smooth."

"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."

"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."

"Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow."

"The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns."

"Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better."

"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions."

"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?"

"The empty vessel makes the loudest sound."

"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."

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

"Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven."

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