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William Shakespeare

 

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.

 

William Shakespeare quotes

What is past is prologue... We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

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William Shakespeare quotes

All things are ready, if our mind be so.

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William Shakespeare quotes

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

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William Shakespeare quotes

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

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Brevity is the soul of wit.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
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 far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

To be, or not to be: that is the question.
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.
We are such stuff as dreams are made on.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
If music be the food of love, play on.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
Nothing can come of nothing.
What’s done can’t be undone.
Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.
All that glisters is not gold.
To thine own self be true.
If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
The Devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
Sweet mercy is nobility’s true badge.
Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake.
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.
Doubt thou the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.
I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.
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.
The fault…is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.
One may smile, and smile, be a villain.
Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.
The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly.
Love is too young to know what conscience is.
Don’t waste your love on somebody, who doesn’t value it.