William Shakespeare

After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.

— William Shakespeare

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

— William Shakespeare

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven.

— William Shakespeare

Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.

— William Shakespeare

Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.

— William Shakespeare

The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.

— William Shakespeare

The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. [Hamlet]

— William Shakespeare

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

— William Shakespeare

Words pay no debts.

— William Shakespeare

He that dies pays all his debts.

— William Shakespeare

Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be eleven. And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, and then from hour to hour we rot and rot. and thereby hangs a tale.

— William Shakespeare

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

— William Shakespeare

Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways?

— William Shakespeare

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

— William Shakespeare

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

— William Shakespeare

Such as we are made of, such we be.

— William Shakespeare

The devil can site scripture for his own purpose! An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek. [Merchant Of Venice]

— William Shakespeare

The devil has the power to assume a pleasing shape.

— William Shakespeare

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.

— William Shakespeare

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

— William Shakespeare

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win, by fearing to attempt.[Measure For Measure]

— William Shakespeare

I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.

— William Shakespeare

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life, is rounded with a sleep. [The Tempest]

— William Shakespeare

That, if then I had waked after a long sleep, will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, the clouds me thought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked I cried to dream again.

— William Shakespeare

Thought are but dreams till their effects are tried.

— William Shakespeare

The apparel oft proclaims the man.

— William Shakespeare

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man.

— William Shakespeare

Nothing can come of nothing.

— William Shakespeare

Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.

— William Shakespeare

No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage, which they will climb incontinent, or else be incontinent before marriage.

— William Shakespeare

For 'Tis the sport to have the engineer hoisted with his own petard.

— William Shakespeare

Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

— William Shakespeare

There's small choice in rotten apples.

— William Shakespeare

Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

— William Shakespeare

When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.

— William Shakespeare

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

— William Shakespeare

Good counselors lack no clients.

— William Shakespeare

There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.

— William Shakespeare

The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.

— William Shakespeare

Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn.

— William Shakespeare

God had given you one face, and you make yourself another. [Hamlet]

— William Shakespeare

Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.

— William Shakespeare

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

— William Shakespeare

Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

— William Shakespeare

Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

— William Shakespeare

Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.

— William Shakespeare

The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.

— William Shakespeare

Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell.

— William Shakespeare

Fashion wears out more clothes than the man.

— William Shakespeare

Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.

— William Shakespeare

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings.

— William Shakespeare

There is 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 we are now afloat; and we must take the current the clouds folding and unfolding beyond the horizon. when it serves, or lose our ventures.

— William Shakespeare

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

— William Shakespeare

They say men are molded out of faults, and for the most, become much more the better; for being a little bad. [Measure For Measure]

— William Shakespeare

Men's faults to themselves seldom appear.

— William Shakespeare

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

— William Shakespeare

O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, more pangs and fears than wars or women have, and when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again.

— William Shakespeare

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

— William Shakespeare

The best safety lies in fear.

— William Shakespeare

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

— William Shakespeare

In time we hate that which we often fear.

— William Shakespeare

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

— William Shakespeare

I will praise any man that will praise me.

— William Shakespeare

He that loves to be flattered is worthy of the flatterer.

— William Shakespeare

Lord, what fools these mortals be.

— William Shakespeare

The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. [Measure For Measure]

— William Shakespeare

The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.

— William Shakespeare

He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.

— 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 by shallows and in misery. [Julius Caesar]

— William Shakespeare

We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all.

— William Shakespeare

Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love.

— William Shakespeare

Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

— William Shakespeare

A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.

— William Shakespeare

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

— William Shakespeare

The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but do not dull thy palm with entertainment of each new-hatched unfledged comrade.

— William Shakespeare

A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

— William Shakespeare

I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, and from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

— William Shakespeare

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

I hate ingratitude more in a person; than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or, any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood. [Twelfth Night]

— William Shakespeare

He receives comfort like cold porridge.

— William Shakespeare

He is not great who is not greatly good.

— William Shakespeare

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. [Twelfth Night]

— William Shakespeare

In my stars I am above thee, but be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

— William Shakespeare

The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.

— William Shakespeare

Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

— William Shakespeare

Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm.

— William Shakespeare

Patch grief with proverbs.

— William Shakespeare

Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief? Fare you well! Had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.

— William Shakespeare

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.

— William Shakespeare

How use doth breed a habit in man!

— William Shakespeare

I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.

— William Shakespeare

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

— William Shakespeare

Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, but give it way a while and let it waste.

— William Shakespeare

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

— William Shakespeare

What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

— William Shakespeare

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

— William Shakespeare

There is a history in all men's lives.

— William Shakespeare