William Shakespeare Quotes

“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.”

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

“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.”

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

“And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”

“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?”

“'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.”

“The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.”

“Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.”

“There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.”

“God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.”

“Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.”

“Boldness, be my friend!”

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”

“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”

“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?”

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

“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”

“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”

“We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.”

“'Tis a kind of good deed to say well: and yet words are no deeds.”

“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.”

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

“Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.”