William Shakespeare

People usually are the happiest at home.

— William Shakespeare

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.

— William Shakespeare

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

— William Shakespeare

Why should honor outlive honestly? [Othello]

— William Shakespeare

The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.

— William Shakespeare

We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart.

— William Shakespeare

My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

— William Shakespeare

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god -- the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!

— William Shakespeare

Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.

— William Shakespeare

There is no darkness, but ignorance.

— William Shakespeare

But thy eternal summer shall not fade.

— William Shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing,

— William Shakespeare

I stalk about her door like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for wattage.

— William Shakespeare

No legacy is so rich as honestly.

— William Shakespeare

Though this be madness, yet there is method in it. [Hamlet]

— William Shakespeare

O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, that thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down and steep my senses in forgetfulness?

— William Shakespeare

It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.

— William Shakespeare

I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses.

— William Shakespeare

He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

— William Shakespeare

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Where be your jibes now, your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar?

— William Shakespeare

My salad days, when I was green in judgment.

— William Shakespeare

Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice.

— William Shakespeare

The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may have in the sworn twelve a thief or two guiltier than him they try.

— William Shakespeare

Time is the justice that examines all offenders. [As You Like It]

— William Shakespeare

He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo.

— William Shakespeare

Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

— William Shakespeare

It was Greek to me.

— William Shakespeare

Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure.

— William Shakespeare

The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv]

— William Shakespeare

My library was dukedom large enough.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

— William Shakespeare

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

— William Shakespeare

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.

— William Shakespeare

Give every man your ear, but few thy voice. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. [Hamlet]

— William Shakespeare

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

— William Shakespeare

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

— William Shakespeare

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

— William Shakespeare

To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.

— William Shakespeare

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

— William Shakespeare

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

— William Shakespeare

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

— William Shakespeare

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

— William Shakespeare

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

— William Shakespeare

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

— William Shakespeare

She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.

— William Shakespeare

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

— William Shakespeare

We that are true lovers run into strange capers.

— William Shakespeare

Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.

— William Shakespeare

This is the monstrosity in love, lady, that the will is infinite and the execution confined; that the desire is boundless, and the act a slave to limit.

— William Shakespeare

O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper. I would not be mad.

— William Shakespeare

Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.

— William Shakespeare

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

— William Shakespeare

Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.

— William Shakespeare

Report me and my cause aright.

— William Shakespeare

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

— William Shakespeare

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. Then can I drown an eye (unused to flow) For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, and weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe, and moan the expense of many a vanished sight. Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, and heavily from woe to woe tell over the sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all losses are restored and sorrows end.

— William Shakespeare

He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she; and she a fair divided excellence, whose fullness of perfection lies in him.

— William Shakespeare

Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.

— William Shakespeare

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

— William Shakespeare

To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on.

— William Shakespeare

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity.

— William Shakespeare

For we which now behold these present days have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.

— William Shakespeare

Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.

— William Shakespeare

We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.

— William Shakespeare

A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

— William Shakespeare

Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?

— William Shakespeare

Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?

— William Shakespeare

The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

— William Shakespeare

Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies?

— William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love; play on.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Nature must obey necessity. [Julius Caesar]

— William Shakespeare

We were not born to sue, but to command.

— William Shakespeare

O comfort-killing night, image of hell, dim register and notary of shame, black stage for tragedies and murders fell, vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!

— William Shakespeare

Remembrance of things past.

— William Shakespeare

Every good servant does not all commands.

— William Shakespeare

Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.

— William Shakespeare

Let me have men about me that are fat, sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights. Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.

— William Shakespeare

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes deeds ill done!

— William Shakespeare

One pain is lessened by another's anguish.

— William Shakespeare

Pain pays the income of each precious thing.

— William Shakespeare

Things without remedy, should be without regard; what is done, is done.

— William Shakespeare

We have seen better days.

— William Shakespeare

What is past is prologue.

— William Shakespeare

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

— William Shakespeare

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

— William Shakespeare

That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

A peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

— William Shakespeare

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

— William Shakespeare

I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.

— William Shakespeare

For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently, However they have writ the style of gods And made a push at chance and sufferance.

— William Shakespeare

There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophies.

— William Shakespeare

Soft pity enters an iron gate.

— William Shakespeare

If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; But when they seldom come, they wish'd for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.

— William Shakespeare

You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the constable of the watch, therefore bear you the lantern.

— William Shakespeare

Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.

— William Shakespeare

A politician is one that would circumvent God.

— William Shakespeare

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

— William Shakespeare