105 BEST William Shakespeare Quotes About Congratulations!

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 congratulations!

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Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Congratulations

“Your heart’s desires be with you.” -William Shakespeare.
“Lack nothing: be merry.” -William Shakespeare.
“I drink to the general joy of the whole table.” -William Shakespeare.
“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.” -William Shakespeare.
“Time is very slow for those who wait. Very fast for those who are scared. Very long for those who celebrate. But for those who love, time is eternal.” -William Shakespeare.
“If money go before, all ways do lie open.” -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.
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” -William Shakespeare.
“Heaven give you many, many merry days.” -William Shakespeare
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” -William Shakespeare.
“Give every man thy ear but few thy voice.” -William Shakespeare.
“Love me or hate me, both are in my favor, if you love me, I’ll always be in your heart, if you hate me, I’ll always be in your mind.” -William Shakespeare.
“I always feel happy, you know why? Because I don’t expect anything from anyone, expectations always hurt. Life is short, so love your life, be happy and keep smiling.” -William Shakespeare.
“I always feel happy, you know why? Because I don’t expect anything from anyone, expectations always hurt. Life is short, so love your life, be happy and keep smiling.” -William Shakespeare.
“All days of glory, joy and happiness.” -William Shakespeare.
“Fair thought and happy hours attend you.” -William Shakespeare.
“I wish you all the joy you can wish.” -William Shakespeare.
“Heaven send thee good fortune.” -William Shakespeare.
“To do a great right do a little wrong.” -William Shakespeare.
“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” -William Shakespeare.
“God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.” -William Shakespeare.
“Always the wrong person gives you the right lesson in life.” -William Shakespeare.
“Knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.” -William Shakespeare.
“Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.” -William Shakespeare.
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.” -William Shakespeare.

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Life

The sands are number’d that make up my life; Here must I stay, and here my life must end.” -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.
“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.
“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.
“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.
“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 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.
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
“Now is the winter of our discontent.” -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.
“Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?” -William Shakespeare.
“Beware the Ides of March.” -William Shakespeare.
“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!” -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.
“See how she leans her cheek upon her hand, O that I were a glove upon that hand that I might touch that cheek!” -William Shakespeare.
“Love is begun by time, And time qualifies the spark and fire of it.” -William Shakespeare.
“This is the very ecstasy of love.” -William Shakespeare.
“Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; when little fears grow great, great love grows there.” -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.
“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.
“I’ll follow thee and make a heaven of hell, To die upon the hand I love so well.” -William Shakespeare.
“To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.” -William Shakespeare.
“But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit.” -William Shakespeare.
“Lovers ever run before the clock.” -William Shakespeare.
“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.
“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.
“For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings.” -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.

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.
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind” -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.
“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.
“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.” -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.
“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.
“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.
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.” -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.

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. 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.
“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” -William Shakespeare.
“But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.” -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.
“O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!” -William Shakespeare.
“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.” -William Shakespeare.
“I wish you all the joy that you can wish.” -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.
“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.
“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.
“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.
“If this be so, the gods do mean to strike me To death with mortal 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.
“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.
“Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament; Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident.” -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.

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Friendship

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.
“The band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity.” -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.
“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.
“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.
“Away, boy, from the troops, and save thyself; / For friends kill friends, and the disorder’s such / As war were hoodwink’d.” -William Shakespeare.
“I count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul remembering my good friends.”
“A noble shalt thou have, and present pay; / And liquor likewise will I give to thee, / And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood.” -William Shakespeare.
“Most friendship is faining, most loving mere folly: / Then, heigh-ho, the holly.This life is most jolly.” -William Shakespeare.
“The presence of a king engenders love / Amongst his subjects and his loyal friends, / As it disanimates his enemies.” -William Shakespeare.
“To me, fair friend, you never can be old.” -William Shakespeare.
“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.
“Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.” -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.
“Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!” -William Shakespeare.
“A friend should bear his friend’s infirmities.” -William Shakespeare.
“That which I would discover / The law of friendship bids me to conceal.” -William Shakespeare.
“To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods.” -William Shakespeare.
“Madam, you wrong the King’s love with these fears; / Your hopes and friends are infinite.” -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.
“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.
“Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.” -William Shakespeare.
“It is a wise father that knows his own child.” -William Shakespeare.
“There is no darkness, but ignorance.” -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.
“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.
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” -William Shakespeare.
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” -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.
“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.
“This above all; to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.” -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.
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.” -William Shakespeare.
“If money go before, all ways do lie open.” -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.
“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.
“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.

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Time

“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.
“Make use of time, let not advantage slip.” -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.
“Nothing ‘gainst Times scythe can make defense.” -William Shakespeare.
“Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.” -William Shakespeare.
“Short time seems long in sorrow’s sharp sustaining.” -William Shakespeare.
“Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I’ll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.” -William Shakespeare.
“We should hold day with the Antipodes, If you would walk in absence of the sun.” -William Shakespeare.
“Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.” -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.
“My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.” -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.
“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.
“This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.” -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.
“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.
“O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t’untie.” -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.
“Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?” -William Shakespeare.
“Beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.” -William Shakespeare.
“The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it.” -William Shakespeare.
“The time is out of joint.” -William Shakespeare.
“Yet, do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong, My love shall in my verse ever live young.” -William Shakespeare.
“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.” -William Shakespeare.

Best William Shakespeare Quotes From Romeo And Juliet

“Parting is such sweet sorrow.” -William Shakespeare.
“With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls, For stony limits cannot hold love out.” -William Shakespeare.
“See how she leans her cheek upon her hand, O that I were a glove upon that hand that I might touch that cheek!” -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 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.
“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.
“Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is!” -William Shakespeare.
“A plague o’ both your houses!” -William Shakespeare.
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” -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.
“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” -William Shakespeare.
“I defy you, stars[.]” -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.
“Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.” -William Shakespeare.
“These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume.” -William Shakespeare.
“O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars 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.
“Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.” -William Shakespeare.
“All are punished.” -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.
“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.
“Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight, For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” -William Shakespeare.
“But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun.” -William Shakespeare.