William Shakespeare Quotes

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

“This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”

“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.”

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

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

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.”

“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.”

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

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

“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

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

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”

“Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

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

“Doubt thou the stars are fire; doubt that the sun doth move; doubt truth to be a liar; but never doubt I love.”

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”

“Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.”

“Though she be but little, she is fierce.”

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

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

“Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.”

“No legacy is so rich as honesty.”