25 Best SHAKESPEARE Quotes About EYES!

“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 Eyes!

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Life

• “The Eyes are the window to your soul.” -William Shakespeare
• “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” -William Shakespeare
• “To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey’d, Such seems your beauty still.” -William Shakespeare
• “Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.” -William Shakespeare
• “If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say, ‘This poet lies; Such heavenly touches ne’er touch’d earthly faces.’” -William Shakespeare
• “And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow’s eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company.” -William Shakespeare
• “A good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a black beard will turn white; a curl’d pate will grow bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun, and not the moon, — for it shines bright, and never changes, but keeps his course truly.” -William Shakespeare
• “Love does not see with the eyes, but with the soul.” -William Shakespeare
• “Shall I compare thee to a summer day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate… When in eternal lines to time thou growst So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.” -William Shakespeare
• “Young men’s love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.” -William Shakespeare
• “But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.” -William Shakespeare
• “Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.” -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-chang Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong. Hark! now I hear them — Ding-dong, bell.” -William Shakespeare
• “What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? Young son, it argues a distemper’d head So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed: Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie; But where unbruised youth with unstuff’d brain Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.” -William Shakespeare
• “Thine eyes I love, and they as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black, and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.”
• “For she had eyes and chose me.” -William Shakespeare
• “Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting, Lizard’s leg, and owlet’s wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.” -William Shakespeare
• “Un-thread the rude eye of rebellion, and welcome home again discarded faith.” -William Shakespeare
• “Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain. And truly not the morning sun of heaven Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east, Nor that full star that ushers in the even, Doth half that glory to the sober west, As those two mourning eyes become thy face: O! let it then as well beseem thy heart To mourn for me since mourning doth thee grace, And suit thy pity like in every part. Then will I swear beauty herself is black, And all they foul that thy complexion lack.” -William Shakespeare
• “Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.” -William Shakespeare
• “As love is full of unbefitting strains, All wanton as a child, skipping and vain, Form’d by the eye and therefore, like the eye, Full of strange shapes, of habits and of forms, Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll To every varied object in his glance.” -William Shakespeare
• “And all my mother came into mine eyes And gave me up to tears.” -William Shakespeare
• “The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing, and think it were not night.” -William Shakespeare
• “They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame.” -William Shakespeare
• “To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold Have from the forests shook three summers’ pride, Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn’d In process of the seasons have I seen, Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn’d, Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.” -William Shakespeare
• “No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let’s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.” -William Shakespeare
• “I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?” -William Shakespeare
• “Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze by the sweet power of music.” -William Shakespeare
• “Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.” -William Shakespeare
• “What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts.” -William Shakespeare
• “Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.” -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
• “Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires: The eyes wink at the hand; yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.” -William Shakespeare
• “For we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.” -William Shakespeare
• “Our very eyes Are sometimes, like our judgments, blind.” -William Shakespeare
• “Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat’ner, and outface the brow Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes, That borrow their behaviors from the great, Grow great by your example and put on The dauntless spirit of resolution.” -William Shakespeare
• “Eternity was in our lips and eyes, Bliss in our brows’ bent; none our parts so poor But was a race of heaven.” -William Shakespeare
• “Things in motion sooner catch the eye than what not stirs.” -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
• “Love’s stories written in love’s richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.” -William Shakespeare
• “one pain is cured by another. catch some new infection in your eye and the poison of the old one would die.” -William Shakespeare
• “From women’s eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.” -William Shakespeare
• “The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man’s hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.” -William Shakespeare
• “Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.” -William Shakespeare
• “For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman’s eye?” -William Shakespeare
• A lean cheek; which you have not: a blue eye, and sunken; which you have not: an unquestionable spirit; which you have not: a beard neglected; which you have not: — but I pardon you for that; for, simply, your having1 in beard is a younger brother’s revenue: — Then your hose should be ungarter’d, your bonnet unhanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and every thing about you demonstrating a careless desolation.” -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
• “Being daily swallowed by men’s eyes, They surfeited with honey and began To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little More than a little is by much too much. So, when he had occasion to be seen, He was but as the cuckoo is in June. Heard, not regarded.”
• “Mine eyes smell onions: I shall weep anon.” -William Shakespeare
• “Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love’s mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Life

• “O gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial’s point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour.” -William Shakespeare
• “Let life be short: else shame will be too long.” -William Shakespeare
• The sands are number’d that make up my life; Here must I stay, and here my life must end.” -William Shakespeare
• “Get thee to a nunnery.” -William Shakespeare
• “As merry as the day is long.” -William Shakespeare
• “The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.” -William Shakespeare
• “O excellent! I love long life better than figs.” -William Shakespeare
• “By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap to pluck bright honor from the pale-faced moon, or dive into the bottom of the deep, where fathom-line could never touch the ground, and pluck up drowned honor by the locks.” -William Shakespeare
• “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
• “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

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Love

• “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” -William Shakespeare
• “Do thou but close our hands with holy words, Then love-devouring death do what he dare; It is enough I may but call her mine.” -William Shakespeare
• “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
• “Parting is such sweet sorrow.” -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
• “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
• “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
• “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
• “Sweet, above thought I love thee.” -William Shakespeare
• “Love is a spirit all compact of fire.” -William Shakespeare
• “I can express no kinder sign of love, than this kind kiss.” -William Shakespeare
• “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.” 
• “They do not love that do not show their love.” -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
• “Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues.” -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

Best William Shakespeare Quotes From Plays

• “Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.” -William Shakespeare
• “Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.” -William Shakespeare
• “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
• “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
• “Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?“ -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
• “Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Happiness

• “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
• “If this be so, the gods do mean to strike me To death with mortal joy.” -William Shakespeare
• “Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief, Burst smilingly.” -William Shakespeare
• “As little joy, my lord, as you suppose You should enjoy were you this country’s king, As little joy you may suppose in me That I enjoy, being the Queen thereof.” -William Shakespeare
• “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
• “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
• “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
• “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

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Friendship

• “All friends shall taste / The wages of their virtue, and all foes / The cup of their deservings.” -William Shakespeare
• “Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.” -William Shakespeare 
• “That which I would discover / The law of friendship bids me to conceal.” -William Shakespeare
• “I 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
• “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
• “Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.” -William Shakespeare
• “There is flattery in friendship.” -William Shakespeare
• “Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all, to envious and calumniating time.” -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
• “There is a devil / haunts thee in the likeness of an old fat man; a tun of man is thy companion.”  -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 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
• “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
• “Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!” -William Shakespeare
• “A friend should bear his friend’s infirmities.” -William Shakespeare
• But to be rough, unswayable, and free.” -William Shakespeare
• “Most friendship is faining, most loving mere folly: / Then, heigh-ho, the holly.” -William Shakespeare
• This life is most jolly.” -William Shakespeare
• “Friendship is constant in all other things / Save in the office and affairs of love.” -William Shakespeare
• “My good friends, I’ll leave you till night.” -William Shakespeare
• “If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not / As to thy friends; for when did friendship take / A breed for barren metal of his friend?” -William Shakespeare
• “To me, fair friend, you never can be old.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes On Life Lessons

• “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
• “No legacy is so rich as honesty.” -William Shakespeare
• “The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope.” -William Shakespeare
• “Love is too young to know what conscience is.” -William Shakespeare
• “And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.” -William Shakespeare
• “Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.” -William Shakespeare
• “We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” -William Shakespeare
• “Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.” -William Shakespeare
• “It is a wise father that knows his own child.” -William Shakespeare
• “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” -William Shakespeare
• “Love sought is good; but given unsought is better.” -William Shakespeare
• “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” -William Shakespeare
• “Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.” -William Shakespeare
• “To do a great right, do a little wrong.” -William Shakespeare
• “To be, or not to be, that is the question.” -William Shakespeare
• “Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.” -William Shakespeare
• “Love is not love, which alters when it alteration finds.” -William Shakespeare
• “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” -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
• “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

• “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
• “Much rain wears the marble.” -William Shakespeare
• “Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then ’tis time to do’t. Hell is murky!” -William Shakespeare
• “Time’s glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.” -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
• “Beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.” -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
• “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,” 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
• “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
• “My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.” -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
• “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
• “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.”
• “Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.” -William Shakespeare
• “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
• “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
• “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
• “Time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop.” -William Shakespeare
• “Make use of time, let not advantage slip; Beauty within itself should not be wasted: Fair flowers that are not gather’d in their prime Rot and consume themselves in little time.” -William Shakespeare
• “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
• “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
• “Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.” -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
• “Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!” -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

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
• “Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.” -William Shakespeare
• “What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word. As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.”
• “A plague o’ both your houses!” -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
• “Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.” -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
• “Go wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.” -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
• “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
• “This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.” -William Shakespeare
• “O, swear not by the moon, th’ inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.” -William Shakespeare
• “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
• “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
• “Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create!” -William Shakespeare
• “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight, For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” -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
• “O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars.” -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