“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 455 best Shakespeare quotes of all time:
Best William Shakespeare Quotes
1. “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.
2. “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.
3. “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.
4. “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.
5. “She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them.”
-William Shakespeare.
6. “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.
7. “What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word. As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.”
-William Shakespeare.
8. “Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?”
-William Shakespeare.
9. “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.
10. “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.
11. “Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar but never doubt thy love.”
-William Shakespeare.
12. “Tell me for which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?”
-William Shakespeare.
13. “Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, Did my heart fly at your service.”
-William Shakespeare.
14. “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.
15. “Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love.”
-William Shakespeare.
16. “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.
17. “Silence is the perfectest herald of joy I were but little happy, if I could say how much.”
-William Shakespeare.
18. “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.
19. “Excellent wetch! Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee, and when I love thee not, chaos is come again.”
-William Shakespeare.
20. “Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade ; But doth suffer a sea-change; Into something rich and strange.”
-William Shakespeare.
21. “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
-William Shakespeare.
22. “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.
23. “How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping.”
-William Shakespeare.
24. “Madam, you wrong the King’s love with these fears; / Your hopes and friends are infinite.”
-William Shakespeare.
25. “No legacy is so rich as honesty.”
-William Shakespeare.
26. “Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.”
-William Shakespeare.
27. “The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.”
-William Shakespeare.
28. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
-William Shakespeare.
29. “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.
30. “Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend.”
-William Shakespeare.
31. “Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.”
-William Shakespeare.
32. “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.
33. “My friends were poor but honest.”
-William Shakespeare.
34. “All friends shall taste / The wages of their virtue, and all foes / The cup of their deservings.”
-William Shakespeare.
35. “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.
36. “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.
37. “But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.”
-William Shakespeare.
38. “Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.- Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!”
-William Shakespeare.
39. “My life, my joy, my food, my ail the world!”
-William Shakespeare.
40. “Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.”
-William Shakespeare.
41. “Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.”
-William Shakespeare.
42. “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.
43. “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.
44. “Time's glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.”
-William Shakespeare.
45. “Old Time the clock-setter.”
-William Shakespeare.
46. “There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered.”
-William Shakespeare.
47. “Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties.”
-William Shakespeare.
48. “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.
49. “I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.”
-William Shakespeare.
50. “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.
51. “I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch, Whereto my finger, like a dial's point, Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears. Now sir, the sound that tells what hour it is Are clamorous goans, which strike upon my heart, Which is the bell: so sighs and tears and groans Show minutes, times, and hours.”
-William Shakespeare.
52. “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.
53. “The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.”
-William Shakespeare.
54. “I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.”
-William Shakespeare.
55. “Full fathom five thy father lies, of his bones are coral made. Those are pearls that were his eyes. Nothing of him that doth fade, but doth suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange.”
-William Shakespeare.
56. “Friendship is constant in all other things / Save in the office and affairs of love.”
-William Shakespeare.
57. “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.
58. “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.
59. “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
-William Shakespeare.
60. “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears: I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.”
-William Shakespeare.
61. “But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun.”
-William Shakespeare.
62. “Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.”
-William Shakespeare.
63. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
-William Shakespeare.
64. “Get thee to a nunnery.”
-William Shakespeare.
65. “To do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes’ palaces.”
-William Shakespeare.
66. “Love’s stories written in love’s richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.”
-William Shakespeare.
67. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.”
-William Shakespeare.
68. “Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.”
-William Shakespeare.
69. “I would not wish Any companion in the world but you: Nor can imagination form a shape Besides yourself to like of.”
-William Shakespeare.
70. “I humbly do beseech of your pardon, For too much of loving you.”
-William Shakespeare.
71. “A lover’s eyes will gaze an eagle blind; A lover’s ears will hear the lowest sound.”
-William Shakespeare.
72. “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.
73. “What is love? ‘Tis not hereafter: Present mirth hath present laughter.”
-William Shakespeare.
74. “I can express no kinder sign of love, than this kind kiss.”
-William Shakespeare.
75. “I, Beyond all limit of what else i’ th’ world, Do love, prize, honour you.”
-William Shakespeare.
76. “He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she: And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.”
-William Shakespeare.
77. “But where there is true friendship, there needs none.”
-William Shakespeare.
78. “Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead.”
-William Shakespeare.
79. “She will die if you love her not, And she will die ere she might make her love known.”
-William Shakespeare.
80. “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.
81. “That which I would discover / The law of friendship bids me to conceal.”
-William Shakespeare.
82. “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.
83. “For when no friends are by, men praise themselves.”
-William Shakespeare.
84. “To Milan let me hear from thee by letters / Of thy success in love, and what news else / Betideth here in absence of thy friend; / And I likewise will visit thee with mine.”
-William Shakespeare.
85. “Madam, you wrong the King’s love with these fears; / Your hopes and friends are infinite.”
-William Shakespeare.
86. “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.”
-William Shakespeare.
87. “When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.”
-William Shakespeare.
88. “Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find.”
-William Shakespeare.
89. “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.
90. “The presence of a king engenders love / Amongst his subjects and his loyal friends, / As it disanimates his enemies.”
-William Shakespeare.
91. “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.
92. “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.
93. “But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun.”
-William Shakespeare.
94. “One fairer than my love? the all-seeing sun Ne’er saw her match since first the world begun.”
-William Shakespeare.
95. “Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all, to envious and calumniating time.”
-William Shakespeare.
96. “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.
97. “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.
98. “Under love’s heavy burden do I sink.”
-William Shakespeare.
99. “For stony limits cannot hold love out, And what love can do that dares love attempt.”
-William Shakespeare.
100. “Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create!
-William Shakespeare.
101. “O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, 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.
102. “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents’ strife.”
-William Shakespeare.
103. “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.
104. “O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars.”
-William Shakespeare.
105. “I defy you, stars.”
-William Shakespeare.
106. “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.
107. “Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.”
-William Shakespeare.
108. “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.
109. “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.
110. “In time we hate that which we often fear.”
-William Shakespeare.
111. “When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”
-William Shakespeare.
112. “False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”
-William Shakespeare.
113. “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.”
-William Shakespeare.
114. “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.
115. “Ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”
-William Shakespeare.
116. “We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
-William Shakespeare.
117. “Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”
-William Shakespeare.
118. “Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.”
-William Shakespeare.
119. “It is a wise father that knows his own child.”
-William Shakespeare.
120. “Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious-dear than life.”
-William Shakespeare.
121. “Let life be short; else shame will be too long.”
-William Shakespeare.
122. “Reputation is an idle and most false imposition: oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.”
-William Shakespeare.
123. “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.
124. “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.
125. “The course of true love never did run smooth.”
-William Shakespeare.
126. “Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?“
-William Shakespeare.
127. “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
-William Shakespeare.
128. “Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
-William Shakespeare.
129. “By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.”
-William Shakespeare.
130. “Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.”
-William Shakespeare.
131. “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.
132. “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.”
-William Shakespeare.
133. “Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead!”
-William Shakespeare.
134. “Right joyous are we to behold your face, Most worthy brother England; fairly met!”
-William Shakespeare.
135. “My joy is death-Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish'd this world's eternity.”
-William Shakespeare.
Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Life
136. “Let life be short: else shame will be too long.”
-William Shakespeare.
137. “O excellent! I love long life better than figs.”
-William Shakespeare.
138. “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.
139. “We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
-William Shakespeare.
140. “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.
141. “As merry as the day is long.”
-William Shakespeare.
142. “Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.”
-William Shakespeare.
143. “Now is the winter of our discontent.”
-William Shakespeare.
144. “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.
145. “Beware the Ides of March.”
-William Shakespeare.
146. “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.
147. “To be, or not to be—that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep.”
-William Shakespeare.
148. “There where my fortune lives, there my life dies.”
-William Shakespeare.
149. “Thy life's a miracle.”
-William Shakespeare.
150. “The sands are number'd that make up my life; Here must I stay, and here my life must end.”
-William Shakespeare.
151. “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!”
-William Shakespeare.
152. “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.
Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Love
153. “This bud of love by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.”
-William Shakespeare.
154. “Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof.”
-William Shakespeare.
155. “I loved Ophelia: Forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.”
-William Shakespeare.
156. “Love is begun by time, And time qualifies the spark and fire of it.”
-William Shakespeare.
157. “Under love’s heavy burden do I sink.”
-William Shakespeare.
158. “You are a lover. Borrow Cupid’s wings And soar with them above a common bound.”
-William Shakespeare.
159. “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.”
-William Shakespeare.
160. “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.
161. “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.
162. “If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.”
-William Shakespeare.
163. “I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster.”
-William Shakespeare.
164. “I do love nothing in the world so well as you—is not that strange?”
-William Shakespeare.
165. “I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.”
-William Shakespeare.
166. “Speak low if you speak love.”
-William Shakespeare.
167. “But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit.”
-William Shakespeare.
168. “Lovers ever run before the clock.”
-William Shakespeare.
169. “Thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.”
-William Shakespeare.
170. “So are you to my thoughts as food to life, Or as sweet-seasoned showers are to the ground.”
-William Shakespeare.
171. “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.
172. “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.
173. “If music be the food of love, play on.”
-William Shakespeare.
174. “Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by.”
-William Shakespeare.
175. “If thou remember’st not the slightest folly That ever love did make thee run into, Thou hast not loved.”
-William Shakespeare.
176. “O mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love’s coming.”
-William Shakespeare.
177. “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.
178. “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.
179. “To be wise, and love, Exceeds man’s might.”
-William Shakespeare.
180. “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.
181. “They are in the very wrath of love, and they will go together. Clubs cannot part them.”
-William Shakespeare.
182. “A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee.”
-William Shakespeare.
183. “Sweet, above thought I love thee.”
-William Shakespeare.
184. “Love is a spirit all compact of fire.”
-William Shakespeare.
185. “But to be rough, unswayable, and free.”
-William Shakespeare.
186. “But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all losses are restored and sorrows end.”
-William Shakespeare.
187. “There is a devil / haunts thee in the likeness of an old fat man; a tun of man is thy companion.”
-William Shakespeare.
188. “I count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul remembering my good friends.”
-William Shakespeare.
189. “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.
190. “Thy friendship makes us fresh.”
-William Shakespeare.
191. “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.
192. “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.
193. “He with thee doth bear a part. / These are certain signs to know / Faithful friend from flattering foe.”
-William Shakespeare.
194. “A friend should bear his friend’s infirmities.”
-William Shakespeare.
195. “Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.”
-William Shakespeare.
196. “Away, boy, from the troops, and save thyself; / For friends kill friends, and the disorder’s such / As war were hoodwink’d.”
-William Shakespeare.
197. “The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.”
-William Shakespeare.
198. “But are you so much in love as your rhymes speak? Neither rhyme nor reason can express how much.”
-William Shakespeare.
199. “Now join hands, and with your hands your hearts.”
-William Shakespeare.
200. “Love hath made thee a tame snake.”
-William Shakespeare.
201. “There’s beggary in the love that can be reckoned.”
-William Shakespeare.
202. “Down on your knees, And thank Heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love.”
-William Shakespeare.
203. “Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were tempered with Love’s sighs.”
-William Shakespeare.
204. “Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.”
-William Shakespeare.
205. “And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.”
-William Shakespeare.
206. “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.
207. “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.
208. “Oh, love’s best habit is in seeming trust, And age in love loves not to have years told.”
-William Shakespeare.
209. “O! how thy worth with manners may I sing, When thou art all the better part of me?”
-William Shakespeare.
210. “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.
211. “Beshrew your eyes, They have o’erlooked me and divided me. 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.
212. “O love, be moderate. Allay thy ecstasy. In measure rein thy joy.”
-William Shakespeare.
213. “Suffer love,–a good epithet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.”
-William Shakespeare.
214. “Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues.”
-William Shakespeare.
215. “Love me! Why, it must be requited.”
-William Shakespeare.
216. “Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; when little fears grow great, great love grows there.”
-William Shakespeare.
217. “The course of true love never did run smooth.”
-William Shakespeare.
218. “Cupid is a knavish lad, thus to make females mad.”
-William Shakespeare.
219. “Love goes by haps; Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.”
-William Shakespeare.
220. “When you depart from me sorrow abides, and happiness takes his leave.”
-William Shakespeare.
221. “In my opinion, love and quiet simplicity if they speak less, they say more.”
-William Shakespeare.
222. “I love thee. By my life, I do.”
-William Shakespeare.
223. “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.
224. “Parting is such sweet sorrow.”
-William Shakespeare.
225. “With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls, For stony limits cannot hold love out.”
-William Shakespeare.
226. “One fairer than my love? the all-seeing sun Ne’er saw her match since first the world begun.”
-William Shakespeare.
227. “So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem.”
-William Shakespeare.
228. “I’ll follow thee and make a heaven of hell, To die upon the hand I love so well.”
-William Shakespeare.
229. “To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.”
-William Shakespeare.
230. “Love can transpose to form and dignity.”
-William Shakespeare.
231. “So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”
-William Shakespeare.
232. “For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings.”
-William Shakespeare.
233. “This is the very ecstasy of love.”
-William Shakespeare.
234. “Don’t waste your love on somebody, who doesn’t value it.”
-William Shakespeare.
235. “Love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”
-William Shakespeare.
236. “Young men’s love then lies Not truly in their hearts but in their eyes.”
-William Shakespeare.
237. “For stony limits cannot hold love out, And what love can do that dares love attempt.”
-William Shakespeare.
238. “I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say ‘I love you.'”
-William Shakespeare.
239. “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
-William Shakespeare.
240. “What’s mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.”
-William Shakespeare.
241. “Let’s go hand in hand, not one before another.”
-William Shakespeare.
242. “They do not love that do not show their love.”
-William Shakespeare.
243. “A heart to love, and in that heart, Courage, to make’s love known.”
-William Shakespeare.
244. “To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods.”
-William Shakespeare.
245. “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.
246. “For ever and a day.”
-William Shakespeare.
247. “In thy face I see the map of honour, truth and loyalty.”
-William Shakespeare.
248. “I love you more than words can wield the matter, Dearer than eyesight, space, and liberty.”
-William Shakespeare.
249. “Good my friends, consider / You are my guests.”
-William Shakespeare.
250. “Most friendship is faining, most loving mere folly: / Then, heigh-ho, the holly. This life is most jolly.”
-William Shakespeare.
251. “This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.”
-William Shakespeare.
252. “You are a lover. Borrow Cupid’s wings And soar with them above a common bound.”
-William Shakespeare.
253. “Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.”
-William Shakespeare.
254. “If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.”
-William Shakespeare.
255. “Don’t waste your love on somebody, who doesn’t value it.”
-William Shakespeare.
256. “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.
257. “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight, For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.”
-William Shakespeare.
258. “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.
259. “Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof.”
-William Shakespeare.
260. “Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties.”
-William Shakespeare.
261. “Young men’s love then lies Not truly in their hearts but in their eyes.”
-William Shakespeare.
262. “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.
263. “What must be shall be.”
-William Shakespeare.
264. “If he be married my grave is like to be my wedding bed.”
-William Shakespeare.
265. “O, I am Fortune’s fool!”
-William Shakespeare.
266. “Go wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.”
-William Shakespeare.
Best William Shakespeare Quotes From Plays
267. “The play ‘s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.”
-William Shakespeare.
268. “Love is blind, and lovers cannot see, The pretty follies that themselves commit.”
-William Shakespeare.
269. “All that glisters is not gold.”
-William Shakespeare.
270. “When you depart from me sorrow abides, and happiness takes his leave.”
-William Shakespeare.
271. “Everyone can master a grief but he that has it.”
-William Shakespeare.
272. “I will wear my heart upon my sleeve; For daws to peck at.”
-William Shakespeare.
273. “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.
274. “But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.”
-William Shakespeare.
275. “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.
276. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
-William Shakespeare.
277. “My Oberon! What visions have I seen! Methought I was enamoured of an ass.”
-William Shakespeare.
278. “If music be the food of love, play on.”
-William Shakespeare.
279. “They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.”
-William Shakespeare.
280. “Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.”
-William Shakespeare.
281. “Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.”
-William Shakespeare.
282. “What’s mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.”
-William Shakespeare.
283. “Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”
-William Shakespeare.
284. “The worst is not, So long as we can say, ‘This is the worst.’”
-William Shakespeare.
285. “Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.”
-William Shakespeare.
286. “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.
287. “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.
288. “The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.”
-William Shakespeare.
Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Happiness
289. “O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!”
-William Shakespeare.
290. “With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
-William Shakespeare.
291. “There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”
-William Shakespeare.
292. “I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!”
-William Shakespeare.
293. “Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.”
-William Shakespeare.
294. “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.
295. “The treasury of everlasting joy!”
-William Shakespeare.
296. “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.
297. “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.
298. “There is tears for his love, joy for his fortune, honor for his valor, and death for his ambition.”
-William Shakespeare.
299. “How sweet is love itself possess'd, When but love's shadows are so rich in joy!”
-William Shakespeare.
300. “Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.”
-William Shakespeare.
301. “If this be so, the gods do mean to strike me To death with mortal joy.”
-William Shakespeare.
302. “Joy absent, grief is present for that time.”
-William Shakespeare.
303. “All days of glory, joy, and happiness.”
-William Shakespeare.
304. “Be cheerful; wipe thine eyes.”
-William Shakespeare.
305. “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.
306. “My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.”
-William Shakespeare.
307. “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.
308. “Let's go hand in hand, not one before another.”
-William Shakespeare.
309. “But here's the joy: my friend and I are one, Sweet flattery!”
-William Shakespeare.
310. “There's nothing in this world can make me joy.”
-William Shakespeare.
311. “For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.”
-William Shakespeare.
312. “But here's the joy my friend and I are one… Then she loves but me alone.”
-William Shakespeare.
313. “This told, I joy; but then no longer glad, I send them back again and straight grow sad.”
-William Shakespeare.
314. “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.
315. “Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.”
-William Shakespeare.
316. “Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief, Burst smilingly.”
-William Shakespeare.
317. “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.
318. “I wish you all the joy you can wish.”
319. “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.
320. “O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess!”
-William Shakespeare.
321. “I wish you all the joy that you can wish.”
-William Shakespeare.
322. “How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?”
-William Shakespeare.
323. “Heaven, the treasury of everlasting joy.”
-William Shakespeare.
324. “Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.”
-William Shakespeare.
325. “Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament; Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident.”
-William Shakespeare.
Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Friendship
326. “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.
327. “Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all.”
-William Shakespeare.
328. “Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!”
-William Shakespeare.
329. “My good friends, I’ll leave you till night.”
-William Shakespeare.
330. “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.
331. “To envious and calumniating time.”
-William Shakespeare.
332. “He that is thy friend indeed, / He will help thee in thy need: / If thou sorrow, he will weep; / If thou wake, he cannot sleep: / Thus of every grief in heart.”
-William Shakespeare.
333. “Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, / Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel.”
-William Shakespeare.
334. “There is flattery in friendship.”
-William Shakespeare.
335. “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.
336. “Keep thy friend, under thy own life’s key.”
-William Shakespeare.
337. “The band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity.”
-William Shakespeare.
338. “I desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends.”
-William Shakespeare.
339. “To me, fair friend, you never can be old.”
-William Shakespeare.
340. “A noble shalt thou have, and present pay; / And liquor likewise will I give to thee, / And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood.”
-William Shakespeare.
341. “Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.”
-William Shakespeare.
342. “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.
Best William Shakespeare Quotes On Life Lessons
343. “The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”
-William Shakespeare.
344. “Brevity is the soul of wit.”
-William Shakespeare.
345. “My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”
-William Shakespeare.
346. “Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”
-William Shakespeare.
347. “Love sought is good; but given unsought is better.”
-William Shakespeare.
348. “If money go before, all ways do lie open.”
-William Shakespeare.
349.“Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.”
-William Shakespeare.
350. “When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions.”
-William Shakespeare.
351. “Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.”
-William Shakespeare.
352. “Love is not love, which alters when it alteration finds.”
-William Shakespeare.
353. “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
-William Shakespeare.
354. “Thy overflow of good converts to bad.”
-William Shakespeare.
355. “Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.”
-William Shakespeare.
356. “God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.”
-William Shakespeare.
357. “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.
358. “Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs.”
-William Shakespeare.
359. “A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.”
-William Shakespeare.
360. “The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.”
-William Shakespeare.
361. “To do a great right, do a little wrong.”
-William Shakespeare.
362. “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!”
-William Shakespeare.
363. “The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope.”
-William Shakespeare.
364. “Love is too young to know what conscience is.”
-William Shakespeare.
365. “To be, or not to be, that is the question.”
-William Shakespeare.
366. “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”
-William Shakespeare.
367. “We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
-William Shakespeare.
368. “Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”
-William Shakespeare.
369. “There is no darkness, but ignorance.”
-William Shakespeare.
370. “Virtue itself ‘scapes not calumnious strokes.”
-William Shakespeare.
Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Time
371. “Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”
-William Shakespeare.
372. “Let every man be master of his time.”
-William Shakespeare.
373. “Make use of time, let not advantage slip.”
-William Shakespeare.
374. “Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.”
-William Shakespeare.
375. “In time we hate that which we often fear.”
-William Shakespeare.
376. “O, call back yesterday, bid time return.”
-William Shakespeare.
377. “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.
378. “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.
379. “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.
380. “We have seen better days.”
-William Shakespeare.
381. “Much rain wears the marble.”
-William Shakespeare.
382. “Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.”
-William Shakespeare.
383. “The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.”
-William Shakespeare.
384. “Time be thine, And thy best graces spend it at thy will.”
-William Shakespeare.
385. “The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!”
-William Shakespeare.
386. “The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it.”
-William Shakespeare.
387. “The time is out of joint.”
-William Shakespeare.
388. “Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.”
-William Shakespeare.
389. “Time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop.”
-William Shakespeare.
390. “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.
391. “My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.”
-William Shakespeare.
392. “Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.”
-William Shakespeare.
393. “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.
394. “O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.”
-William Shakespeare.
395. “Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.”
-William Shakespeare.
396. “Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.”
-William Shakespeare.
397. “We see which way the stream of time doth run.”
-William Shakespeare.
398. “I that please some, try all, both joy and terror Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error.”
-William Shakespeare.
399. “What else may hap, to time I will commit.”
-William Shakespeare.
400. “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.
401. “No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change.”
-William Shakespeare.
402. “What e'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time.”
-William Shakespeare.
403. “Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.”
-William Shakespeare.
404. “Beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.”
-William Shakespeare.
405. “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.
406. “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.
407. “There's a time for all things.”
-William Shakespeare.
408. “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.
409. “I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.”
-William Shakespeare.
410. “What is past is prologue.”
-William Shakespeare.
411. “A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.”
-William Shakespeare.
412. “Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.”
-William Shakespeare.
413. “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.
414. “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.
415. “The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.”
-William Shakespeare.
416. “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.
417. “Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty's brow.”
-William Shakespeare.
418. “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.
419. “Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?”
-William Shakespeare.
420. “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.
421. “I have seen better faces in my time Than stands on any shoulder that I see Before me at this instant.”
-William Shakespeare.
422. “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.
423. “This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.”
-William Shakespeare.
424. “Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.”
-William Shakespeare.
425. “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.
426. “Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.”
-William Shakespeare.
427. “We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.”
-William Shakespeare.
428. “Time … thou ceaseless lackey to eternity.”
-William Shakespeare.
429. “Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky!”
-William Shakespeare.
430. “Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.”
-William Shakespeare.
431. “So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate.”
-William Shakespeare.
432. “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.
433. “Nothing ‘gainst Times scythe can make defense.”
-William Shakespeare.
434. “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.
435. “We should hold day with the Antipodes, If you would walk in absence of the sun.”
-William Shakespeare.
436. “Yet, do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong, My love shall in my verse ever live young.”
-William Shakespeare.
437. “Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!”
-William Shakespeare.
438. “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
439. “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.
440. “Love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”
-William Shakespeare.
441. “This bud of love by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.”
-William Shakespeare.
442. “Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.”
-William Shakespeare.
443. “All are punished.”
-William Shakespeare.
444. “These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die.”
-William Shakespeare.
445. “I defy you, stars[.]”
-William Shakespeare.
446. “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life.”
-William Shakespeare.
447. “I fear too early, for my mind misgives; Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, Shall bitterly begin.”
-William Shakespeare.
448. “Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.”
-William Shakespeare.
449. “Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.”
-William Shakespeare.
450. “Thus with a kiss I die.”
-William Shakespeare.
451. “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.
452. “Parting is such sweet sorrow.”
-William Shakespeare.
453. “With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls, For stony limits cannot hold love out.”
-William Shakespeare.
454. “A plague o’ both your houses!”
-William Shakespeare.
455. “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.”
-William Shakespeare.
456. “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.
457. “I must be gone and live, or stay and die.”
-William Shakespeare.
458. “For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”
-William Shakespeare.
459. “These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume.”
-William Shakespeare.
