A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
- William Shakespeare
A friend i'the court is better than a penny in purse.
- William Shakespeare
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
- William Shakespeare
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
- William Shakespeare
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
- William Shakespeare
Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
- William Shakespeare
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, his acts being seven ages.
- William Shakespeare
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
- William Shakespeare
An overflow of good converts to bad.
- William Shakespeare
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
- William Shakespeare
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
- William Shakespeare
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
- William Shakespeare
As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
- William Shakespeare
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
- William Shakespeare
Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
- William Shakespeare
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
- William Shakespeare
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
- William Shakespeare
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
- William Shakespeare
Boldness be my friend.
- William Shakespeare
Brevity is the soul of wit.
- William Shakespeare
But men are men; the best sometimes forget.
- William Shakespeare
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
- William Shakespeare
By that sin fell the angels.
- William Shakespeare
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
- William Shakespeare
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
- William Shakespeare
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
Death is a fearful thing.
- William Shakespeare
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
- William Shakespeare
Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
- William Shakespeare
Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.
- William Shakespeare
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
- William Shakespeare
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
- William Shakespeare
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
- William Shakespeare
Farewell, fair cruelty.
- William Shakespeare
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
- William Shakespeare
For I can raise no money by vile means.
- William Shakespeare
For my part, it was Greek to me.
- William Shakespeare
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
- William Shakespeare
Give every man thy ear, but few they voice.
- William Shakespeare
Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
- William Shakespeare
Give thy thoughts no tongue.
- William Shakespeare
Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
- William Shakespeare
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
- William Shakespeare
Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
- William Shakespeare
He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.
- William Shakespeare
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
- William Shakespeare
He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
- William Shakespeare
He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.
- William Shakespeare
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
- William Shakespeare
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
- William Shakespeare
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world.
- William Shakespeare
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
- William Shakespeare
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
- William Shakespeare
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
- William Shakespeare
How well he's read, to reason against reading!
- William Shakespeare
I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
- William Shakespeare
I bear a charmed life.
- William Shakespeare
I dote on his very absence.
- William Shakespeare
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
- William Shakespeare
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
- William Shakespeare
I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
- William Shakespeare
I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
- William Shakespeare
I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.
- William Shakespeare
I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
- William Shakespeare
