William Shakespeare Brave New World Quotes!

“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 brave new world quotes!

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Best William Shakespeare Brave New World Quotes

“O brave new world, That has such people in’t. As you from crimes would pardoned be, Let your indulgence set me free.” -William Shakespeare
“How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in it! Admired Miranda!” -William Shakespeare
“O brave new world, O brave new world.” -William Shakespeare
“Oh, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that has such people in ‘t!” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Life

“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
“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
“Get thee to a nunnery.” -William Shakespeare
“As merry as the day is long.” -William Shakespeare
“Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.” -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
“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
“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
“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

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Love

“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
“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
“Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.” -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 can transpose to form and dignity.” -William Shakespeare
“I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.” -William Shakespeare
“Speak low if you speak love.” -William Shakespeare
“I love thee. By my life, I do.” -William Shakespeare
“Suffer love,–a good epithet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.” -William Shakespeare
“Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues.” -William Shakespeare
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.” -William Shakespeare
“So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee.” -William Shakespeare
“Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.” -William Shakespeare
“Those lines that I before have writ do lie, Ev’n those that said I could not love you dearer. Yet then my judgment knew no reason why My most full flame should afterwards burn clearer.” -William Shakespeare
“A lover’s eyes will gaze an eagle blind; A lover’s ears will hear the lowest sound.” -William Shakespeare
“But love, first learned in a lady’s eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain, / But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, / And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.” -William Shakespeare
“Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were tempered with Love’s sighs.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes From Plays

“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
“The course of true love never did run smooth.” -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
“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
“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
“They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.” -William Shakespeare
“All that glisters is not gold.” -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
“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
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend.” -William Shakespeare
“The play ‘s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Happiness

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.” -William Shakespeare
“I wish you all the joy that you can wish.” -William Shakespeare
“My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.” -William Shakespeare
“But here’s the joy: my friend and I are one, Sweet flattery!” -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
“This told, I joy; but then no longer glad, I send them back again and straight grow sad.” -William Shakespeare
“O God that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts.” -William Shakespeare
“There is tears for his love, joy for his fortune, honor for his valor, and death for his ambition.” -William Shakespeare
“I wish you all the joy you can wish.” -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
“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
“O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess!”
“Heaven, the treasury of everlasting joy.” -William Shakespeare
“Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Friendship

“My friends were poor but honest.” -William Shakespeare
“The band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity.” -William Shakespeare
“Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, / Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel.” -William Shakespeare
“Keep thy friend, under thy own life’s key.” -William Shakespeare
“But where there is true friendship, there needs none.” -William Shakespeare
“Friendship is constant in all other things / Save in the office and affairs of love.” -William Shakespeare
“My good friends, I’ll leave you till night.” -William Shakespeare
“If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not / As to thy friends; for when did friendship take / A breed for barren metal of his friend?” -William Shakespeare
“Thy friendship makes us fresh.” -William Shakespeare
“Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.” -William Shakespeare
“There is a devil / haunts thee in the likeness of an old fat man; a tun of man is
thy companion.” -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, Directly seasons him his enemy.” -William Shakespeare
“But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all losses are restored and sorrows end.”
“That I will here dismiss my loving friends, / And to my fortunes and the people’s favour / Commit my cause in balance to be weigh’d.” -William Shakespeare
“Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.” -William Shakespeare
“There is flattery in friendship.” -William Shakespeare
“Good my friends, consider / You are my guests.” -William Shakespeare
“By the Lord, our plot is a good plot as ever was laid; our friends true and constant: a good plot, good friends, and full of expectation; an excellent plot, very good friends.” -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

Best William Shakespeare Quotes On Life Lessons

“A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.” -William Shakespeare
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.” -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
“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
“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
“Let life be short; else shame will be too long.” -William Shakespeare
“Virtue itself ‘scapes not calumnious strokes.” -William Shakespeare
“Love is not love, which alters when it alteration finds.” -William Shakespeare
“Ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.” -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
“When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions.” -William Shakespeare
“Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.” -William Shakespeare
“The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.” -William Shakespeare
“In time we hate that which we often fear.” -William Shakespeare
“When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.” -William Shakespeare
“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.” -William Shakespeare
“To do a great right, do a little wrong.” -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
“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.” -William Shakespeare
“Brevity is the soul of wit.” -William Shakespeare
“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Time

“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
“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
“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
“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
“I have seen better faces in my time Than stands on any shoulder that I see Before me at this instant.” -William Shakespeare
“And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch’d.” -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
“See the minutes, how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.” -William Shakespeare
“There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered.” -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.”
“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
“Yet, do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong, My love shall in my verse ever live young.”
“So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate.” -William Shakespeare
“Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty’s brow.”
“And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, “It is ten o’clock: Thus we may see,” quoth he, “how the world wags.”” -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
“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
“I defy you, stars[.]” -William Shakespeare
“O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious 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
“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.”
“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
“All are punished.” -William Shakespeare
“These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die.” -William Shakespeare
“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents’ strife.”
“What must be shall be.” -William Shakespeare
“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.”
“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
“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
“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