Quotes By William Shakespeare

Top Best Quotes By William Shakespeare

1. A light heart lives long.

2. Beware the ides of March.

3. Brevity is the soul of wit.

4. All’s well if all ends well.

5. What’s done cannot be undone.

6. Speak low, if you speak love.

7. No legacy is so rich as honesty.

8. Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.

9. Expectation is the root of all heartache.

10. The object of Art is to give life a shape.

11. Nothing will come of nothing: speak again.

12. Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

13. One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.

14. The course of true love never did run smooth.

15.  If you hate me, I’ll always be in your mind.

16. I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.

17. With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

18. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.

19. ’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

20. Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

21. Nothing will come of nothing; we must dare mighty things.

22. I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.

23. It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

24. Love is the greatest of dreams, yet the worst of nightmares.

25. There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

26. When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.

27. Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

28. When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

29. People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.

30. Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.

31. I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

32. Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

33. The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

34. Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

35. Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend.

36. A young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief.

37. Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

38. Love me or hate me, both are in my favor…If you love me, I’ll always be in your heart…

39. Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

40. O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

41. There are three people in yourself:Who people think you are, Who you think you are, and who you really are.

42. Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

43. Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is!

44. If you love and get hurt, love more. If you love more and hurt more, love even more. If you love even more and get hurt even more, love some more until it hurts no more…

45. Time is very slow for those who wait, Very fast for those who are scared, Very long for those who lament, Very short for those who celebrate, But for those who love, time is eternal.

46. What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! In form and moving, how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?