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William Shakespeare Quotes

Total quotes: 124
“You have such a February face,
So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness.”
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
Tagged: character, Mood, Coldness
“Let us once lose our oaths to find ourselves, or else we lose ourselves to keep our oaths.”
— Lord Berowne, Love's Labour's Lost
“Stars, hide your fires;
Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
— William Shakespeare, Macbeth
Tagged: Concealment, desires, hiding plans, Poetic
“If love is rough with you, then be rough with love!”
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Tagged: Love Advice, Love
“Make not your thoughts your prisons.”
— William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
Tagged: Free Your Thoughts, Freedom
“This above all: to thine own self be true.”
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Tagged: shakespeare, Be yourself, Advice, Inspirational
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.”
— William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Tagged: romance, Love
“I loved you ever: but it is no matter.”
— William Shakespeare, The Complete Works of William Shakespear
Tagged: Love, Unimportance, Taken For Granted
“Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.”
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
Tagged: Being True To Yourself, Honesty
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet ( Folger Library Shakespeare)
Tagged: Love, Relationship, Clarity, Uncertainty
“Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.”
— William Shakespeare, The Complete Dramatic And Poetical Works Of William Shakespeare, Volume 2
Tagged: Deception, Innocence, Pretentions, strength, Bravery
“Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.”
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Tagged: Patience, shakespeare, Time
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
— William Shakespeare, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Knickerbocker Classics)
Tagged: Hell, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Every bondman in his own hand bears. The power to cancel his captivity.”
— William Shakespeare, Casca, Julius Caesar
Tagged: Life
“It’s easy for someone to joke about scars if they’ve never been cut.”
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Tagged: shakespeare, Scars, Pain, Jokes
“If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking.”
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Tagged: shakespeare, Love, rough
“Did my heart ever love anyone before this moment? My eyes were liars, then, because I never saw true beauty before tonight.”
— Romeo Montague, Romeo and Juliet
Tagged: Pickup Lines, True Love, Only One Apple To My Eye
“You outshine other women like a white dove in the middle of a flock of crows.”
— Romeo Montague, Romeo and Juliet
Tagged: Pickup Lines, You're The Most Beautiful Person In The World
“You have witchcraft in your lips...there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council.”
— William Shakespeare, Henry V
Tagged: Love, Flirting Lines, flirtatious, Infatuation, affection
“Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. Then your love would also change.”
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Tagged: Love, swear by the moon, Changing, Constant Change, romance, Moon
“Kneel not to me: the power that I have on you is to spare you; the malice towards you to forgive you. Live! And deal with others better.”
— Cymbeline, Cymbeline
Tagged: Creative Mercy, Empathy
“Truth is too scarce to make societies secure. But, one thing is fairly secure, domestic peace will accurst; this is the riddle that informs all the wisdom of the world.”
— Duke Vincentio, Measure for Measure
Tagged: Core Patterns of the World, Human Nature, Underpinnings of Society
“What angel shall bless this unworthy husband? He cannot thrive unless her prayers, whom heaven delights to hear and loves to grant, reprieve him from the wrath of greatest justice.”
— Countess of Rousillon, All's Well That Ends Well
Tagged: Creative Mercy
“'Tis better that the enemy seek us.
So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers,
Doing himself offense, whilst we, lying still, 
Are full of rest, defense, and nimbleness.”
— William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
Tagged: strategy
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
— William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Tagged: William Shakes, William Shakespeare, Shakes Quotes
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet ( Folger Library Shakespeare)
Tagged: Hamlet, William Shakespeare, William Shakes, Shakes Quotes
“If a man was an excellent piper he must be worthless as a man. Otherwise he wouldn't be so good a piper.”
— Plutarch, William Shakespeare, Pericles
Tagged: Life
“Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win,
By fearing to attempt.”
— William Shakespeare, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Knickerbocker Classics)
Tagged: Measure For Measure, William Shakespeare, Doubt, Fear
“Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.”
— William Shakespeare, King Henry VIII
Tagged: William Shakespeare Quotes, Shakes Quotes, William Shakespeare
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
— William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Tagged: shakespeare, Love, beauty
“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.”
— William Shakespeare, Othello
Tagged: shakespeare, Reputation, Luck
“Beware of entrance to a quarrel; being in, bear it, that the opposed may beware of thee.”
— Polonius, Hamlet ( Folger Library Shakespeare)
Tagged: Life
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our life is rounded with a sleep.”
— William Shakespeare, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Knickerbocker Classics)
Tagged: The Tempest, William Shakes, William Shakespeare
“Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”
— William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Tagged: William Shakespeare, Shakes Quotes, shakespeare
“Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.”
— William Shakespeare, Julius Ceasar
Tagged: William Shakespeare, Shakes Quotes, William Shakespeare Quotes
“Sweet are the uses of adversity, which like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.”
— William Shakespeare, As You Like It
Tagged: strength
“So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem.”
— William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Tagged: Sister Love, grow together
“Young men’s love then lies
Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.”
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet: The First Quarto, 1597 (Classic Reprint)
Tagged: William Shakespeare, Shake Quotes, William Shakes
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
— William Shakespeare, As You Like It
Tagged: Wisdom, Fools, stupidity, shakespeare
“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.”
— William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
Tagged: shakespeare, Heartbreak, emotions
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