125+ Best SHAKESPEARE Quotes About DREAMS!

“To be, or not to be? That is the question!”

William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor. Shakespeare was born in the 1500’s, but his plays are just as popular today as they were when he was alive!

Some of Shakespeare’s most famous plays include:

Romeo And Juliet
Hamlet
The Tempest
Twelfth Night
Macbeth

…And many more.

Shakespeare was one of the best English writers of all time, and it’s easy to see why. His plays feature timeless quotes about life, love, relationships, and more.

Whether you’re interested in deep philosophical quotes about life, funny Shakespeare quotes, or hot and heavy Shakespeare quotes about love and romance, we’ve got you covered!

Without further ado, here are the best William Shakespeare quotes about dreams!

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Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Dreams

“My troublous dreams this night doth make me sad.” -William Shakespeare
“To die, to sleep – to sleep – perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub, for in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause.” -William Shakespeare
“I dreamt a dream tonight.” -William Shakespeare
“If we shadows have offended, think but this and all is mended, that you have but slumber’d here, while these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, no more yielding but a dream.” -William Shakespeare
“A dream itself is but a shadow.” -William Shakespeare
“He is a dreamer; let us leave him: pass.” -William Shakespeare
“The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.” -William Shakespeare
“Look to my house. I am right loath to go: There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest, For I did dream of money-bags to-night.” -William Shakespeare
“Dreams are toys.” -William Shakespeare
“If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!” -William Shakespeare
“I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamed of unhappiness and waked herself with laughing.” -William Shakespeare
“When I waked, I cried to dream again.” -William Shakespeare
“Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream.” -William Shakespeare
“All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.” -William Shakespeare
“In bed asleep, while they do dream things true.” -William Shakespeare
“That dreamers often lie.” -William Shakespeare
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” -William Shakespeare
“What dreamed my lord? Tell me, and I’ll requite it with sweet rehearsal of my morning’s dream.” -William Shakespeare
“How like a dream is this I see and hear! Love, lend me patience to forbear awhile.” -William Shakespeare
“Break up the senate till another time, When Caesar’s wife shall meet with better dreams.” -William Shakespeare
“All days are nights to see till I see thee And nights bright days when dreams do show me thee.” -William Shakespeare
“I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters: To you they have show’d some truth.” -William Shakespeare
“We are all made of dreams, and our life stretches from sleep before birth to sleep after death.” -William Shakespeare
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” -William Shakespeare
“The course of true love never did run smooth.” -William Shakespeare
“Love is the greatest of dreams, yet the worst of nightmares.” -William Shakespeare
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
“To die, to sleep – To sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there’s the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come.” -William Shakespeare
“Why, thou hast put him in such a dream, that when the image of it leaves him he must run mad.” -William Shakespeare
“Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death: Fainting, despair; despairing, yield thy breath!” -William Shakespeare
“Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.” -William Shakespeare
“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” -William Shakespeare
“To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ’tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep No more; and by a sleep, to say we end The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks That Flesh is heir to? ‘Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die to sleep, To sleep, perchance to Dream; Aye, there’s the rub.” -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.” -William Shakespeare
“Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death.” -William Shakespeare
“Dreams are the children of idled minds.” -William Shakespeare
“The king hath note of all that they intend, by interception which they dream not of.
“If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber’d here While these visions did appear.” -William Shakespeare
“O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.” -William Shakespeare
“True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who woos Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger’d, puffs away from thence, Turning his side to the dew-dropping south.” -William Shakespeare
“Romeo: I dreamt a dream tonight. Mercutio: And so did I. Romeo: Well, what was yours? Mercutio: That dreamers often lie. Romeo: In bed asleep while they do dream things true.” -William Shakespeare
“Bring me a constant woman to her husband, One that ne’er dream’d a joy beyond his pleasure, And to that woman, when she has done most, Yet will I add an honour-a great patience.” -William Shakespeare
“I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Dreaming

“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.” -William Shakespeare
“For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.” -William Shakespeare
“Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.” -William Shakespeare
“What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute’s mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy? For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy? Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown, Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?” -William Shakespeare
“The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.” -William Shakespeare
“I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.” -William Shakespeare
“Lord, what fools these mortals be!” -William Shakespeare
“The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man’s hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.” -William Shakespeare
“Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow’s shadow.” -William Shakespeare
“Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love’s mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.” -William Shakespeare
“Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.” -William Shakespeare
“If there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say ‘Behold!’ The jaws of darkness do devour it up; So quick bright things come to confusion.” -William Shakespeare
“When I waked, I cried to dream again.” -William Shakespeare
“If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep, My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. My bosom’s lord sits lightly in his throne, And all this day an unaccustomed spirit Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.” -William Shakespeare
“If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend: And, as I am an honest Puck, If we have unearned luck Now to ‘scape the serpent’s tongue, We will make amends ere long; Else the Puck a liar call; So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends.” -William Shakespeare
“True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.” -William Shakespeare
“The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow We are such stuff as dreams are made of.” -William Shakespeare
“…and then, in dreaming, / The clouds methought would open and show riches / Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked / I cried to dream again.” -William Shakespeare
“She dreams of him that has forgot her love; You dote on her that cares not for your love. ‘Tis pity love should be so contrary; And thinking of it makes me cry ‘alas!” -William Shakespeare
“Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven, shall behold the night of our solemnities.” -William Shakespeare
“Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad.” -William Shakespeare
“Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both.” -William Shakespeare
“I know a place where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows.”
“To sleep perchance to dream.” -William Shakespeare
“My only love sprung from my only hate.” -William Shakespeare
“Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream—For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause, there’s the respect, That makes calamity of so long life.” -William Shakespeare
“We will meet; and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously.” -William Shakespeare
“Tell me, daughter Juliet, How stands your dispositions to be married” It is an honor that I dream not of.” -William Shakespeare
“Oh, I have passed a miserable night, so full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams!” -William Shakespeare
“Poor wretches that depend On greatness’ favor, dream as I have done; Wake, and find nothing.” -William Shakespeare
“Is this a vision? Is this a dream? Do I sleep?” -William Shakespeare
“Swift as shadow, short as any dream.” -William Shakespeare
“We are such stuff that dreams are made of.” -William Shakespeare
“Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.” -William Shakespeare
“But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly.” -William Shakespeare
“Who would be so mocked with glory, or to live But in a dream of friendship, To have his pomp and all what state compounds But only painted, like his varnished friends?” -William Shakespeare
“Dream in light years, challenge miles, walk step by step.” -William Shakespeare
“A dream itself is but a shadow.” -William Shakespeare
“Because it is a customary cross, As die to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy’s followers.” -William Shakespeare
“Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls; Conscience is but a work that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe: Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law!” -William Shakespeare
“Thoughts are but dreams till their effects are tried.” -William Shakespeare
“Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!”
“Many dream not to find, neither deserve, and yet are steeped in favors.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Life

“O gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial’s point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour.” -William Shakespeare
“Let life be short: else shame will be too long.” -William Shakespeare
“The sands are number’d that make up my life; Here must I stay, and here my life must end.” -William Shakespeare
“Get thee to a nunnery.” -William Shakespeare
“As merry as the day is long.” -William Shakespeare
“By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap to pluck bright honor from the pale-faced moon, or dive into the bottom of the deep, where fathom-line could never touch the ground, and pluck up drowned honor by the locks.” -William Shakespeare
“To do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes’ palaces.” -William Shakespeare
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears: I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.” -William Shakespeare
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” -William Shakespeare
“Now is the winter of our discontent.” -William Shakespeare
“Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?” -William Shakespeare
“Beware the Ides of March.” -William Shakespeare
“Thy life’s a miracle.” -William Shakespeare
“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.” -William Shakespeare
“Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.” -William Shakespeare
“Full fathom five thy father lies, of his bones are coral made. Those are pearls that were his eyes. Nothing of him that doth fade, but doth suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange.” -William Shakespeare
“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?” -William Shakespeare
“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.” -William Shakespeare
“O excellent! I love long life better than figs.” -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.” -William Shakespeare
“It is silliness to live when to live is torment; and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.” -William Shakespeare
“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!” -William Shakespeare
“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.” -William Shakespeare
“To be, or not to be—that is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep.” -William Shakespeare
“I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.” -William Shakespeare
“There where my fortune lives, there my life dies.” -William Shakespear

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Love

“For stony limits cannot hold love out, And what love can do that dares love attempt.” -William Shakespeare
“Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” -William Shakespeare
“Do thou but close our hands with holy words, Then love-devouring death do what he dare; It is enough I may but call her mine.” -William Shakespeare
“If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.” -William Shakespeare
“Don’t waste your love on somebody, who doesn’t value it.” -William Shakespeare
“Love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.” -William Shakespeare
“Cupid is a knavish lad, thus to make females mad.” -William Shakespeare
“So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem.” -William Shakespeare
“Beshrew your eyes, They have o’erlooked me and divided me. One half of me is yours, the other half yours— Mine own, I would say. But if mine, then yours, And so all yours.” -William Shakespeare
“O love, be moderate. Allay thy ecstasy. In measure rein thy joy.” -William Shakespeare
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.” -William Shakespeare
“Those lines that I before have writ do lie, Ev’n those that said I could not love you dearer.” -William Shakespeare
Yet then my judgment knew no reason why My most full flame should afterwards burn clearer.” -William Shakespeare
“If music be the food of love, play on.” -William Shakespeare
“Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.” -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.” -William Shakespeare
“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.” -William Shakespeare
“And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.” -William Shakespeare
“To be wise, and love, Exceeds man’s might.” -William Shakespeare
“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain, But lust’s effect is tempest after sun; Love’s gentle spring doth always fresh remain, Lust’s winter comes ere summer half be done. Love surfeits not; lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth; lust full of forged lies.” -William Shakespeare
“Now join hands, and with your hands your hearts.” -William Shakespeare
“Love hath made thee a tame snake.” -William Shakespeare
“Sweet, above thought I love thee.” -William Shakespeare
“Love is a spirit all compact of fire.” -William Shakespeare
“I can express no kinder sign of love, than this kind kiss.” -William Shakespeare
“What’s mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.” -William Shakespeare
“Let’s go hand in hand, not one before another.” -William Shakespeare
“O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day, / Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away!” -William Shakespeare
“They are in the very wrath of love, and they will go together. Clubs cannot part them.” -William Shakespeare
“What is love? ‘Tis not hereafter: Present mirth hath present laughter.” -William Shakespeare
“A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee.” -William Shakespeare
“I, Beyond all limit of what else i’ th’ world, Do love, prize, honour you.” -William Shakespeare
“He is the half part 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
“Excellent wetch! Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee, and when I love thee not, chaos is come again.” -William Shakespeare
“If thou remember’st not the slightest folly That ever love did make thee run into, Thou hast not loved.” -William Shakespeare
“O mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love’s coming, That can sing both high and low: Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man’s son doth know.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes From Plays

“My Oberon! What visions have I seen! Methought I was enamoured of an ass.” -William Shakespeare
“If music be the food of love, play on.” -William Shakespeare
“Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.” -William Shakespeare
“Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.” -William Shakespeare
“Out, out, brief candle! 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.” -William Shakespeare
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” -William Shakespeare
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.” -William Shakespeare
“When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.” -William Shakespeare
“Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade ; But doth suffer a sea-change; Into something rich and strange.” -William Shakespeare
“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.” -William Shakespeare
“My salad days, When I was green in judgment: cold in blood, To say as I said then! But, come, away; Get me ink and paper: He shall have every day a several greeting, Or I’ll unpeople Egypt.” -William Shakespeare
“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.” -William Shakespeare
“The worst is not, So long as we can say, ‘This is the worst.’” -William Shakespeare
“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?“ -William Shakespeare
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” -William Shakespeare
“Love is blind, and lovers cannot see, The pretty follies that themselves commit.” -William Shakespeare
“All that glisters is not gold.” -William Shakespeare
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” -William Shakespeare
“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead!” -William Shakespeare
“They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.” -William Shakespeare
“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.” -William Shakespeare
“The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.” -William Shakespeare
“The play ‘s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.”
-William Shakespeare
“To be, or not to be; that is the question; Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer; The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles.” -William Shakespeare
“Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thousand times, and now how abhorr’d in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it..” -William Shakespeare
“When you depart from me sorrow abides, and happiness takes his leave.” -William Shakespeare
“Everyone can master a grief but he that has it.” -William Shakespeare
“But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.” -William Shakespeare
“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.” -William Shakespeare
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” -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.” -William Shakespeare
“This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war.” -William Shakespeare
“What’s mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.” -William Shakespeare
“I will wear my heart upon my sleeve; For daws to peck at.” -William Shakespeare
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend.”
“The course of true love never did run smooth.” -William Shakespeare
“By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Happiness

“How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?” -William Shakespeare
“All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.” -William Shakespeare
Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity.” -William Shakespeare
“Let’s go hand in hand, not one before another.” -William Shakespeare
“Right joyous are we to behold your face, Most worthy brother England; fairly met!” -William Shakespeare
“My joy is death-Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish’d this world’s eternity.” -William Shakespeare
“Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.” -William Shakespeare
“But here’s the joy my friend and I are one… Then she loves but me alone.” -William Shakespeare
“My life, my joy, my food, my ail the world!” -William Shakespeare
“If this be so, the gods do mean to strike me To death with mortal joy.” -William Shakespeare
“Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief, Burst smilingly.” -William Shakespeare
“As little joy, my lord, as you suppose You should enjoy were you this country’s king, As little joy you may suppose in me That I enjoy, being the Queen thereof.” -William Shakespeare
“Think with thyself How more unfortunate than all living women Are we come hither; since that thy sight, which should Make our eyes flow with joy, hearts dance with comforts, Constrains them weep and shake with fear and sorrow, Making the mother, wife, and child, to see The son, the husband, and the father, tearing His country’s bowels out.” -William Shakespeare
“And now what rests but that we spend the time; With stately triumphs, mirthful comic shows, Such as befits the pleasure of the court; Sound drums and trumpets farewell sour annoy; For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.” -William Shakespeare
“Joy absent, grief is present for that time.” -William Shakespeare
“All days of glory, joy, and happiness.” -William Shakespeare
“Be cheerful; wipe thine eyes.” -William Shakespeare
“There’s nothing in this world can make me joy.” -William Shakespeare
“For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.” -William Shakespeare
“O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess!” -William Shakespeare
“It is that fery person for all the world, as just as you will desire; and seven hundred pounds of moneys, and gold, and silver, is her grandsire upon his death’s-bed-Got deliver to a joyful resurrections!” -William Shakespeare
“The treasury of everlasting joy!” -William Shakespeare
“A goodly portly man, i’ faith, and a corpulent; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by’r Lady, inclining to threescore; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff.” -William Shakespeare
“There is tears for his love, joy for his fortune, honor for his valor, and death for his ambition.” -William Shakespeare
“What win I, if I gain the thing I seek A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute’s mirth to wail a week Or sells eternity to ‘get a toy For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy.” -William Shakespeare
“How sweet is love itself possess’d, When but love’s shadows are so rich in joy!” -William Shakespeare
“Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.” -William Shakespeare
“Silence is the perfectest herald of joy I were but little happy, if I could say how much.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Friendship

“Keep thy friend, under thy own life’s key.” -William Shakespeare
“But where there is true friendship, there needs none.” -William Shakespeare
“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead.” -William Shakespeare
“Madam, you wrong the King’s love with these fears; / Your hopes and friends are infinite.” -William Shakespeare
“For when no friends are by, men praise themselves.” -William Shakespeare
“Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all, to envious and calumniating time.” -William Shakespeare
“To Milan let me hear from thee by letters / Of thy success in love, and what news else / Betideth here in absence of thy friend; / And I likewise will visit thee with mine.” -William Shakespeare
“Madam, you wrong the King’s love with these fears; / Your hopes and friends are infinite.” -William Shakespeare
“A noble shalt thou have, and present pay; / And liquor likewise will I give to thee, / And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood.” -William Shakespeare
“Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find.” -William Shakespeare
“If any man challenge this, he / is a friend to Alencon and an enemy to our person; if thou / encounter any such, apprehend him, an thou dost me love.” -William Shakespeare
“I rais’d him, and I pawn’d / Mine honour for his truth; who being so heighten’d, / He watered his new plants with dews of flattery, / Seducing so my friends; and to this end / He bow’d his nature, never known before But to be rough, unswayable, and free.” -William Shakespeare
“Most friendship is faining, most loving mere folly: / Then, heigh-ho, the holly.” -William Shakespeare
“This life is most jolly.” -William Shakespeare
“The great man down, you mark his favourite flies, / The poor advanc’d makes friends of enemies; / And hitherto doth love on fortune tend, / For who not needs shall never lack a friend, / And who in want a hollow friend doth try.” -William Shakespeare
Directly seasons him his enemy.” -William Shakespeare
“But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all losses are restored and sorrows end.” -William Shakespeare
“I desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends.” -William Shakespeare
“Thou common friend, that’s without faith or love- / For such is a friend now; treacherous man, / Thou hast beguil’d my hopes; nought but mine eye Could have persuaded me.” -William Shakespeare
“My way of life / Is fall’n into the sear, the yellow leaf, / And that which should accompany old age, / As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny and dare not.” -William Shakespeare
“Friendship is constant in all other things / Save in the office and affairs of love.” -William Shakespeare
“Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.” -William Shakespeare
“That which I would discover / The law of friendship bids me to conceal.” -William Shakespeare
“I thank thee, gentle Percy; and be sure / I count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul rememb’ring my good friends; / And as my fortune ripens with thy love, / It shall be still thy true love’s recompense.” -William Shakespeare
“He that is thy friend indeed, / He will help thee in thy need: / If thou sorrow, he will weep; / If thou wake, he cannot sleep: / Thus of every grief in heart.” -William Shakespeare
He with thee doth bear a part. / These are certain signs to know / Faithful friend from flattering foe.” -William Shakespeare
“My friends were poor but honest.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes On Life Lessons

“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.” -William Shakespeare
“A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.” -William Shakespeare
“Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.” -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
“Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.” -William Shakespeare
“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!” -William Shakespeare
“The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope.” -William Shakespeare
“Love is too young to know what conscience is.” -William Shakespeare
“The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.” -William Shakespeare
“Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious-dear than life.” -William Shakespeare
“Love sought is good; but given unsought is better.” -William Shakespeare
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” -William Shakespeare
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” -William Shakespeare
“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” -William Shakespeare
“It is a wise father that knows his own child.” -William Shakespeare
“There is no darkness, but ignorance.” -William Shakespeare
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” -William Shakespeare
“Thy overflow of good converts to bad.” -William Shakespeare
“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition: oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.” -William Shakespeare
“The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.” -William Shakespeare
“In time we hate that which we often fear.” -William Shakespeare
“Men are April when they woo, December when they wed; maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.” -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
“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.” -William Shakespeare
“Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.” -William Shakespeare
“Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.” -William Shakespeare
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” -William Shakespeare
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” -William Shakespeare
“Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Time

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.” -William Shakespeare
“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.” -William Shakespeare
“Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.” -William Shakespeare
“In time we hate that which we often fear.” -William Shakespeare
“O, call back yesterday, bid time return.” -William Shakespeare
“Time … thou ceaseless lackey to eternity.” -William Shakespeare
“Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch’d, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.” -William Shakespeare
“There’s a time for all things.” -William Shakespeare
“Time’s glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.” -William Shakespeare
“Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.” -William Shakespeare
“Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.” -William Shakespeare
“Time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop.” -William Shakespeare
“Make use of time, let not advantage slip; Beauty within itself should not be wasted: Fair flowers that are not gather’d in their prime Rot and consume themselves in little time.” -William Shakespeare
“My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.” -William Shakespeare
“Youth is full of sport, age’s breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.” -William Shakespeare
“I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.” -William Shakespeare
“The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.” -William Shakespeare
“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch, Whereto my finger, like a dial’s point, Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears. Now sir, the sound that tells what hour it is Are clamorous goans, which strike upon my heart, Which is the bell: so sighs and tears and groans Show minutes, times, and hours.” -William Shakespeare
“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to dayWhat’s past and what’s to come is strew’d with husks And formless ruin of oblivion.” -William Shakespeare
“No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change.” -William Shakespeare
“What e’er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time.” -William Shakespeare
“If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.” -William Shakespeare
“O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t’untie.” -William Shakespeare
“Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.” -William Shakespeare
“Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.” -William Shakespeare
“We see which way the stream of time doth run.” -William Shakespeare
“I that please some, try all, both joy and terror Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error.” -William Shakespeare
“Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.” -William Shakespeare
“Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?” -William Shakespeare
“Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes. Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour’d As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.” -William Shakespeare
“Old Time the clock-setter.” -William Shakespeare
“Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?” -William Shakespeare
“We have seen better days.” -William Shakespeare
“Much rain wears the marble.” -William Shakespeare
“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! 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.” -William Shakespeare
“Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber’d oak.” -William Shakespeare
“At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May’s new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.” -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

Best William Shakespeare Quotes From Romeo And Juliet

“Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes; Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.” -William Shakespeare
“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.” -William Shakespeare
“This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.” -William Shakespeare
“O, swear not by the moon, th’ inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.” -William Shakespeare
“My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.” -William Shakespeare
“Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create!” -William Shakespeare
O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this.” -William Shakespeare
“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life.” -William Shakespeare
“I fear too early, for my mind misgives; Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, Shall bitterly begin.” -William Shakespeare
“I defy you, stars.” -William Shakespeare
From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death!” -William Shakespeare
“These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume.” -William Shakespeare
“This bud of love by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.” -William Shakespeare
“Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof.” -William Shakespeare
“Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties.” -William Shakespeare
“Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.” -William Shakespeare
“What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word. As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.” -William Shakespeare
“A plague o’ both your houses!” -William Shakespeare
“Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.” -William Shakespeare
“Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.” -William Shakespeare
“Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.” -William Shakespeare
“Thus with a kiss I die.” -William Shakespeare
“Go wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.” -William Shakespeare
“I must be gone and live, or stay and die.” -William Shakespeare
“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” -William Shakespeare
“Under love’s heavy burden do I sink.” -William Shakespeare
“You are a lover. Borrow Cupid’s wings And soar with them above a common bound.” -William Shakespeare
“Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.” -William Shakespeare
“Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” -William Shakespeare
“Do thou but close our hands with holy words, Then love-devouring death do what he dare; It is enough I may but call her mine.” -William Shakespeare
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” -William Shakespeare