Romeo And Juliet

30 Times Shakespeare Quotes Were All Too Real And Relevant

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. 
Kirsten Corley
October 21, 2016
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Tagged: Philosophy
“The weight of this sad time we must obey.”
— William Shakespeare, Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works
Tagged: Pain, Suffering, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.”
— William Shakespeare, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Knickerbocker Classics)
Tagged: Rough Times, Pain, Suffering, Let It Hit Me
“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
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
— William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
Tagged: Love, Trust, 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
“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
— William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Tagged: shakespeare, Fear, Greatness, Success
“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”
— William Shakespeare, As You Like It
Tagged: shakespeare, Life, humanity
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
— William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Tagged: shakespeare, Love, complications
“Don't waste your love on somebody who doesn't value it.”
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Tagged: shakespeare, Love, Standards, Breaking Up, Being Too Good For Someone
“This above all: to thine own self be true.”
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Tagged: shakespeare, Be yourself, Advice, Inspirational
“If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking.”
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Tagged: shakespeare, Love, rough
“All's well that ends well.”
— William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
Tagged: shakespeare, Endings, Optimism
“Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.”
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Tagged: Patience, shakespeare, Time
“There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game.”
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Tagged: shakespeare, participation, losers, winners
“If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.”
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Tagged: shakespeare, Be yourself, Truth, Lies
“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”
— William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor
Tagged: shakespeare, early, late, Time
“To be or not to be, that is the question.”
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Tagged: Death, Life, shakespeare
“I say there is no darkness but ignorance.”
— William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Tagged: shakespeare, Darkness, Ignorance
“Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.”
— William Shakespeare, King Lear
Tagged: shakespeare, Be yourself, Honesty, Truth
“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: Love, True Love, Cupid, romance, Eyes
“Cowards die many times before their deaths.”
— Julius Caesar, Julius Caesar
Tagged: Life, cowards, Death
“I am one who loved not wisely but too well.”
— William Shakespeare, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Knickerbocker Classics)
Tagged: William Shakes, Shakes Quotes, love quotes
“If music be the food of love play on.”
— William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Tagged: Shakes Quotes, William Shakes, shakespeare
“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.”
— William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Tagged: Measure For Measure, Shakes Quotes, William Shakespeare
“I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?”
— William Shakespeare, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Knickerbocker Classics)
Tagged: Much To Do About Nothing, William Shakespeare, William Shakes, Shakes Quotes
“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
“No legacy is so rich as honesty.”
— William Shakespeare, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Knickerbocker Classics)
Tagged: All's Well That Ends Well, William Shakespeare, William Shakes, Shakes Quotes
“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
“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