25 Best SHAKESPEARE Quotes About DARKNESS!

“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 darkness!

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Life

• “The prince of darkness is a gentleman!” -William Shakespeare
• “If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms.” -William Shakespeare
• “Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.” -William Shakespeare
• “Light seeking light doth light of light beguile: So, ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.” -William Shakespeare
• “And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s In deepest consequence.” -William Shakespeare
• “I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed, And fight maliciously; for when mine hours Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives Of me for jests; but now I’ll set my teeth And send to darkness all that stop me.” -William Shakespeare
• “Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.” -William Shakespeare
• “What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, So stumblest on my counsel? *Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?” -William Shakespeare
• “I say there is no darkness but ignorance.” -William Shakespeare
• “Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey in my head To work my mind, when body’s work’s expir’d: For then my thoughts-from far where I abide- Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee, And keep my drooping eyelids open wide, Looking on darkness which the blind do see: Save that my soul’s imaginary sight Presents thy shadow to my sightless view, Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night, Makes black night beauteous and her old face new. Lo! thus, by day my limbs, by night my mind, For thee, and for myself no quiet find.” -William Shakespeare
• “Good with out evil is like light with out darkness which in turn is like righteousness whith out hope.” -William Shakespeare
• “May never glorious sun reflex his beams Upon the country where you make abode! But darkness and the gloomy shade of death Environ you till mischief and despair Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves.” -William Shakespeare
• “A great cause of the night is lack of the sun.” -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
• “This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine. There is nothing more confining than the prison we don’t know we are in.” -William Shakespeare
• “The instruments of darkness tell us truths.” -William Shakespeare
• “The morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness.” -William Shakespeare
• “This thing of darkness I Acknowledge mine.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Life

• “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
• “O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars 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
• “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
• “I defy you, stars[.]” -William Shakespeare
• 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
• “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
• “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” -William Shakespeare
• Love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.” -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
• “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
• “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
• “But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun.”
• “One fairer than my love? the all-seeing sun Ne’er saw her match since first the world begun.” -William Shakespeare
• “This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.” -William Shakespeare
• “Don’t waste your love on somebody, who doesn’t value it.” -William Shakespeare
• ““Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties.” -William Shakespeare
• “Young men’s love then lies Not truly in their hearts but in their eyes.” -William Shakespeare
• “For stony limits cannot hold love out, And what love can do that dares love attempt.” -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.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Love

• “Young men’s love then lies Not truly in their hearts but in their eyes.” -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.” -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
• “But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun.” -William Shakespeare
• “One fairer than my love? the all-seeing sun Ne’er saw her match since first the world begun.” -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
• “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 heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is!” -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.”
• “Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.” -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
• “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
• “Love goes by haps; Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.” -William Shakespeare
• “I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster.” -William Shakespeare
• “Tell me for which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?” -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
• “So are you to my thoughts as food to life, Or as sweet-seasoned showers are to the ground.” -William Shakespeare
• “Nor did I wonder at the lily’s white, Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose; They were but sweet, but figures of delight Drawn after you…” -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
• “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
• “There’s beggary in the love that can be reckoned.” -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
• “I can express no kinder sign of love, than this kind kiss.” -William Shakespeare
• “O heaven, O earth, bear witness to this sound And crown what I profess with kind event If I speak true! If hollowly, invert What best is boded me to mischief! I Beyond all limit of what else i’ th’ world Do love, prize, honor you.” -William Shakespeare
• “Love hath made thee a tame snake.” -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
• “For ever and a day.” -William Shakespeare
• “In thy face I see the map of honour, truth and loyalty.” -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
• “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
• “If music be the food of love, play on.” -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
• “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
• “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
• “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
• “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
• “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
• “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
• “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
• “By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.” -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
• “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
• “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
• “My Oberon! What visions have I seen! Methought I was enamoured of an ass.” -William Shakespeare
• “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet”
• “Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead!” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Happiness

• “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
• “Heaven, the treasury of everlasting joy.” -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
• “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
• “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
• “How sweet is love itself possess’d, When but love’s shadows are so rich in joy!” -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
• “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
• “There’s little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.” -William Shakespeare
• “Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.” -William Shakespeare
• “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” -William Shakespeare
• “Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.” -William Shakespeare
• “O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!” -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
• “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
• “Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.- Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!” -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
• “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
• “Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Friendship

• “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
• “Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!” -William Shakespeare
• “A friend should bear his friend’s infirmities.” -William Shakespeare
• “All friends shall taste / The wages of their virtue, and all foes / The cup of their deservings.”  -William Shakespeare
• “In truth, sir, and she is pretty, and honest, and gentle; and one that is your friend, I can tell you that by the way; I praise heaven for it.” -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
• “Madam, you wrong the King’s love with these fears; / Your hopes and friends are infinite.” -William Shakespeare
• “To me, fair friend, you never can be old.” -William Shakespeare
• “I count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul remembering my good friends.” -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
• “Good my friends, consider / You are my guests.” -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.” -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.” -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
• “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
• “Warwick, these words have turn’d my hate to love; / And I forgive and quite forget old faults, And joy that thou becom’st King Henry’s friend.”  -William Shakespeare
• “The band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity.” -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
• “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
• “My friends were poor but honest.” -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
• “For when no friends are by, men praise themselves.” -William Shakespeare
• “Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all, to envious and calumniating time.” -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
• “There is a devil / haunts thee in the likeness of an old fat man; a tun of man is thy companion.” -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

Best William Shakespeare Quotes On Life Lessons

• “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
• “Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.” -William Shakespeare
• “Love sought is good; but given unsought is better.” -William Shakespeare
• “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” -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
• “God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.” -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
• “It is a wise father that knows his own child.” -William Shakespeare
• “There is no darkness, but ignorance.” -William Shakespeare
• “The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.” -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
• “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
• “Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious-dear than life.” -William Shakespeare
• “Let life be short; else shame will be too long.” -William Shakespeare
• “Virtue itself ‘scapes not calumnious strokes.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Time

• “Things without all remedy should be without regard: what’s done is done.” -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
• “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
• “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
• “We are time’s subjects, and time bids be gone.” -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
• “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
• “What is past is prologue.” -William Shakespeare
• “A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.” -William Shakespeare
• “Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.” -William Shakespeare
• “Time’s the king of men; he’s both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.” -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
• “Let’s take the instant by the forward top; For we are old, and on our quick’st decrees The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time Steals ere we can effect them.” -William Shakespeare
• “Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then ’tis time to do’t. Hell is murky!”
• “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.”
• “The time is out of joint.” -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
• “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.” -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
• “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
• “Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow; Thou canst help time to furrow me with age, But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage.” -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
• “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
• “Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!” -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.” -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
• “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
• “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
• “The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.” -William Shakespeare
• “Time be thine, And thy best graces spend it at thy will.” -William Shakespeare
• “Let every man be master of his time.” -William Shakespeare
• “Make use of time, let not advantage slip.” -William Shakespeare
• “I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes From Romeo And Juliet

• “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
• “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
• “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
• “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
• “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
• “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.”
• “Thus with a kiss I die.” -William Shakespeare
• “If he be married my grave is like to be my wedding bed.” -William Shakespeare
• “O, I am Fortune’s fool!” -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
• “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. -William Shakespeare
• Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents’ strife.” -William Shakespeare
• “What must be shall be.” -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
• “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.”
• “Parting is such sweet sorrow.” -William Shakespeare
• “O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars 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
• “If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.” -William Shakespeare
• “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” -William Shakespeare
• “With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls, For stony limits cannot hold love out.” -William Shakespeare