55 Best SHAKESPEARE Quotes About DEATH!

“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 death of kings!

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Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Death

“Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.” -William Shakespeare
“Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest:” -William Shakespeare
“Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.” -William Shakespeare
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.” -William Shakespeare
“I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.” -William Shakespeare
“And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!” -William Shakespeare
“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.” -William Shakespeare
“Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated: Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.” -William Shakespeare
“An Angelo for Claudio, death for death!” -William Shakespeare
“Some guard these traitors to the block of death, treason’s true bed and yielder up of breath.” -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.” -William Shakespeare
“Nothing in his life became him like leaving it.” -William Shakespeare
“To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream.” -William Shakespeare
“By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.” -William Shakespeare
“The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.” -William Shakespeare
“When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.” -William Shakespeare
“He that dies pays all debts.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Grief, Loss, And Mortality

“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.” -William Shakespeare
“When beggars die, there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.” -William Shakespeare
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard. It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.” -William Shakespeare
“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.” -William Shakespeare
“If you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it, for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe.” -William Shakespeare
“We cannot hold mortality’s strong hand.” -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 I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, And hug it in mine arms.” -William Shakespeare
“Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle’s compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.” -William Shakespeare
“He that dies pays all debts.” -William Shakespeare
“Everyone can master a grief but he that has it.” -William Shakespeare
“Thou know’st ’tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.” -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: there’s the respect That makes calamity of so long life.” -William Shakespeare
“‘Tis a vile thing to die, my gracious lord, When men are unprepared and look not for it.” -William Shakespeare
“Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes On Death Of Kings

“Death, that hath suck’d the honey of thy breath.” -William Shakespeare
“Done to death by slanderous tongues was the Hero that here lies.” -William Shakespeare
“The valiant never taste of death but once.” -William Shakespeare
“Let me be boiled to death with melancholy.” -William Shakespeare
“On pain of death, no person be so bold.” -William Shakespeare
“Though Death be poor, it ends a mortal woe.” -William Shakespeare
“Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.” -William Shakespeare
“Where hateful Death put on his ugliest mask.” -William Shakespeare
“The worst is Death, and death will have his day.” -William Shakespeare
“He kills her in her own humor.” -William Shakespeare
“We’ll bury him; and then, what’s brave, what’s noble, let’s do it after the high Roman fashion, and make death proud to take us.” -William Shakespeare
“I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.” -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.” -William Shakespeare
“You don’t have to die in the next year if you die this year.” -William Shakespeare
“Downy sleep, death’s counterfeit.” -William Shakespeare
“Life… is a paradise To what we fear of death.” -William Shakespeare
“The weariest and most loathed worldly life that age, ache, penury, and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise to what we fear of death.” -William Shakespeare
“O Death, made proud with pure and princely beauty!” -William Shakespeare
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.“ -William Shakespeare
“Death, that dark spirit, in’s nervy arm doth lie, Which being advanc’d, declines, and then men die.” -William Shakespeare
“Death-counterfeiting sleep.” -William Shakespeare
“Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand, blood and revenge are hammering in my head.“ -William Shakespeare
“Death is a fearful thing.“ -William Shakespeare
“Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.” -William Shakespeare
“Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all; all shall die.” -William Shakespeare
“What is thy sentence then but speechless death?” -William Shakespeare
“The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.” -William Shakespeare
“Thus ready for the way of life or death, I wait the sharpest blow, Antiochus.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes On Life Lessons

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions.” -William Shakespeare
“If money go before, all ways do lie open.” -William Shakespeare
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
“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
“No legacy is so rich as honesty.” -William Shakespeare
“To be, or not to be, that is the question.” -William Shakespeare
“God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.” -William Shakespeare
“Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.” -William Shakespeare
“Let life be short; else shame will be too long.” -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
“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
“Virtue itself ‘scapes not calumnious strokes.” -William Shakespeare
“Love is not love, which alters when it alteration finds.” -William Shakespeare
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” -William Shakespeare
“Ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes From Plays

“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.” -William Shakespeare
“She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them.” -William Shakespeare
“But are you so much in love as your rhymes speak? Neither rhyme nor reason can express how much.” -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

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Love

“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
“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
“Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar but never doubt thy love.” -William Shakespeare
“Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, Did my heart fly at your service.” -William Shakespeare
“I would not wish Any companion in the world but you: Nor can imagination form a shape Besides yourself to like of.” -William Shakespeare
“I love you more than words can wield the matter, Dearer than eyesight, space, and liberty.” -William Shakespeare
“Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love.” -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
“They do not love that do not show their love.” -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
“For ever and a day.” -William Shakespeare
“In thy face I see the map of honour, truth and loyalty.” -William Shakespeare
“There’s beggary in the love that can be reckoned.” -William Shakespeare
“Down on your knees, And thank Heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love.” -William Shakespeare
“In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding: Sweet lovers love the spring.” -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
“I loved Ophelia: Forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.” -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
“Love’s stories written in love’s richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.” -William Shakespeare
“Love me! Why, it must be requited.” -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
“Oh, love’s best habit is in seeming trust, And age in love loves not to have years told.” -William Shakespeare
“O! how thy worth with manners may I sing, When thou art all the better part of me?” -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 long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Happiness

“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 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
“Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament; Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident.” -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
“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
“I wish you all the joy you can wish.” -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
“Heaven, the treasury of everlasting joy.” -William Shakespeare
“How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping.” -William Shakespeare
“This told, I joy; but then no longer glad, I send them back again and straight grow sad.” -William Shakespeare
“But here’s the joy: my friend and I are one, Sweet flattery!” -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 wish you all the joy that you can wish.” -William Shakespeare
“My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.” -William Shakespeare
“I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.” -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
“Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Friendship

“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“I count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul remembering my good friends.” -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
“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
“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
“The presence of a king engenders love / Amongst his subjects and his loyal friends, / As it disanimates his enemies.” -William Shakespeare
“To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, / Recanting goodness, sorry ere ’tis shown; / But where there is true friendship, there needs none.” -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.” -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
“To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods.” -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

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Time

“Let every man be master of his time.” -William Shakespeare
“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
“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
“What, keep a week away? Seven days and nights, Eightscore-eight hours, and lovers’ absent hours More tedious than the dial eightscore times! O weary reckoning!” -William Shakespeare
“What else may hap, to time I will commit.” -William Shakespeare
“Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.” -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
“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
“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
“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
“Time be thine, And thy best graces spend it at thy will.” -William Shakespeare
“The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!” -William Shakespeare
“The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.” -William Shakespeare
“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
“Minutes, hours, days, months, and years, Pass’d over to the end they were created, Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. Ah, what a life were this!” -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
“Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!” -William Shakespeare
“We should hold day with the Antipodes, If you would walk in absence of the sun.” -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!” -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
“There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered.” -William Shakespeare
“My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date; But when in thee time’s furrows I behold, Then look I death my days should expiate.” -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
“I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this present twelve o’clock at midnight.” -William Shakespeare
“This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.” -William Shakespeare
“What is past is prologue.” -William Shakespeare
“Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have To wear away this long age of three hours Between our after-supper and bedtime?” -William Shakespeare
“Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.” -William Shakespeare
“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.” -William Shakespeare
“We are time’s subjects, and time bids be gone.” -William Shakespeare
“Make use of time, let not advantage slip.” -William Shakespeare
“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.” -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
“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

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
“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
“For stony limits cannot hold love out, And what love can do that dares love attempt.” -William Shakespeare
“Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.” -William Shakespeare
“All are punished.” -William Shakespeare
“I defy you, stars[.]” -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
“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
“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
“Young men’s love then lies Not truly in their hearts but in their eyes.” -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
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents’ strife.”
“What must be shall be.” -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
“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
“If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.” -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
“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

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Life

“I humbly do beseech of your pardon, For too much of loving you.” -William Shakespeare
“In my opinion, love and quiet simplicity if they speak less, they say more.” -William Shakespeare
“I love thee. By my life, I do.” -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
“She will die if you love her not, And she will die ere she might make her love known.” -William Shakespeare
“I do love nothing in the world so well as you—is not that strange?” -William Shakespeare
“Parting is such sweet sorrow.” -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
“When you depart from me sorrow abides, and happiness takes his leave.” -William Shakespeare
“Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.—Lady, as you are mine, I am yours. I give away myself for you and dote upon the exchange.” -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
“Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by.” -William Shakespeare
“I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say ‘I love you.’” -William Shakespeare
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” -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
“For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings.” -William Shakespeare
“Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken.” -William Shakespeare
“A heart to love, and in that heart, Courage, to make’s love known.” -William Shakespeare
“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?” -William Shakespeare
“For where thou art, there is the world itself, and where though art not, desolation.” -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
“Thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.” -William Shakespeare
“So are you to my thoughts as food to life, Or as sweet-seasoned showers are to the ground.” -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