William Shakespeare famous quotes

Famous Quotes on: Honesty, Wisdom, Thomas Jefferson Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in a foul oyster.
-- William Shakespeare

#Honesty #Oysters #House

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
-- William Shakespeare

#Food #Unrequited Love #Romantic Love

The Eyes are the window to your soul
-- William Shakespeare

#Eye #Soul #Window

Love me or hate me, both are in my favor…If you love me, I'll always be in your heart…If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind.
-- William Shakespeare

#Hate #Heart #Mind

But love is blind and lovers cannot see
-- William Shakespeare

#Love #Blind #Love Is

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.
-- William Shakespeare

#Friendship #Accepting #Grows

The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.
-- William Shakespeare

#Memorable #Hands #Law

Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.
-- William Shakespeare

#Flying #Shadow #Substance

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...
-- William Shakespeare

#Love #Im Sorry #Hurt

When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
-- William Shakespeare

#Marriage #Thinking #Married

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
-- William Shakespeare

#Inspirational #Dream #Ambition

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
-- William Shakespeare

#Happiness #Happy #Kings

To weep is to make less the depth of grief.
-- William Shakespeare

#Broken Heart #Breakup #Grief

My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul.
-- William Shakespeare

#Lying #Grief #Silence

I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.
-- William Shakespeare

#Crazy #Wind #Mad

Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)
-- William Shakespeare

#Love #Dark #Light

There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)
-- William Shakespeare

#Games #Play #Scene

Educated men are so impressive.
-- William Shakespeare

#School #Men #Impressive

thus with a kiss I die
-- William Shakespeare

#Kissing #Romance

You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound.
-- William Shakespeare

#Wings #Lovers #Common

All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.
-- William Shakespeare

#I Miss You #Missing You #Dream

That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
-- William Shakespeare

#Love #Memorable #Men

There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee.
-- William Shakespeare

#Honesty #Fellowship #Thee

Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways?
-- William Shakespeare

#Night #Scum #Way

Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.
-- William Shakespeare

#Teacher #Appreciation #Flower

And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.
-- William Shakespeare

#Love #Together #Littles

The prince of darkness is a gentleman!
-- William Shakespeare

#Darkness #Gentleman #Ironic

The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
-- William Shakespeare

#Inspirational #Motivational #Hope

Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.
-- William Shakespeare

#Stars #Halloween #Light

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.
-- William Shakespeare

#Motivational #Love You #Water

Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
-- William Shakespeare

#Food #Entrepreneur #Cooking

God shall be my hope, my stay, my guide and lantern to my feet.
-- William Shakespeare

#Hope #Powerful #Feet

I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.
-- William Shakespeare

#Horse #Wish #Tongue

love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit
-- William Shakespeare

#Love #Blind #Folly

The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.
-- William Shakespeare

#Silence #Innocence #Failing

Time does not have the same appeal for every one
-- William Shakespeare

#Doe #Appeals

Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear
-- William Shakespeare

#Memories #Memorable #Loss

I do desire we may be better strangers.
-- William Shakespeare

#Inspirational #Desire #May

I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.
-- William Shakespeare

#Thank You #Gratitude #Appreciation

I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.
-- William Shakespeare

#Heart #Voice #Issues

All things are ready, if our mind be so.
-- William Shakespeare

#Attitude #Mind #Preparedness

Like madness is the glory of life.
-- William Shakespeare

#Madness #Glory

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
-- William Shakespeare

#Faith #Memorable #Christianity

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

#Memorable #Be Kind #Cruelty

Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.
-- William Shakespeare

#Halloween #Sides #World

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

#Love #Beauty #Hands

Why, what's the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?
-- William Shakespeare

#Storm #Matter #Faces

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
-- William Shakespeare

#Witty #Memorable #Should

And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.
-- William Shakespeare

#Memorable #Reflection #Glasses

Eternity was in our lips and eyes.
-- William Shakespeare

#Eye #Lips #Eternity

Now I will believe that there are unicorns...
-- William Shakespeare

#Believe #Unicorn

My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is called content, a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.
-- William Shakespeare

#Kings #Heart #Crowns

Some are born great, others achieve greatness.
-- William Shakespeare

#Greatness #Intellectual #Achieve

Why, then the world ’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.
-- William Shakespeare

#Oysters #World

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.
-- William Shakespeare

#Wise #Funny Inspirational #Memorable

So quick bright things come to confusion.​​​​​​
-- William Shakespeare

#Confusion

So dear I love him that with him, All deaths I could endure. Without him, live no life
-- William Shakespeare

#Love #Life #Boyfriend

Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
-- William Shakespeare

#Friendship #Money #Bitterness

There was a star danced, and under that was I born.
-- William Shakespeare

#Love #Birthday #Dance

A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.
-- William Shakespeare

#Sleep #Fool #Ears

O, full of scorpions is my mind!
-- William Shakespeare

#Mind #Scorpions

Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.
-- William Shakespeare

#Art #Work #Mischief

Journeys end in lovers meeting.
-- William Shakespeare

#Love #Romantic #Travel

Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream
-- William Shakespeare

#Good Night #Dream #Halloween

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

#Sweet #Lying #Eye

Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.
-- William Shakespeare

#Perfection #Mars #Strive

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.
-- William Shakespeare

#Friendship #Loss #Thinking

If I be waspish, best beware my sting.
-- William Shakespeare

#Halloween

Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.
-- William Shakespeare

#Two #Language #Speak

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.
-- William Shakespeare

#Wings

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.
-- William Shakespeare

#Dog #Love You #Inspiration

I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul.
-- William Shakespeare

#Book #Soul #Secret

Ay me! sad hours seem long.
-- William Shakespeare

#Long #Hours

He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
-- William Shakespeare

#Men #Scar #Inhumanity

What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, So stumblest on my counsel? *Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?*
-- William Shakespeare

#Art #Men #Night

These violent delights have violent ends.
-- William Shakespeare

#Friendship #Delight #Violent

Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly at your service
-- William Shakespeare

#Love #Heart #Soul

Out, damned spot! out, I say!
-- William Shakespeare

#Memorable #Guilt #Spots

The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.
-- William Shakespeare

#Moon #Fire #Sun

Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.
-- William Shakespeare

#Broken #Persons

We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.
-- William Shakespeare

#Angel #Men #Flesh

Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.
-- William Shakespeare

#Fall #Special #Sparrows

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

#Sisterhood #Two #Lovely

How is it that the clouds still hang on you?
-- William Shakespeare

#Clouds #Stills

Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.
-- William Shakespeare

#Stupidity #Folly

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
-- William Shakespeare

#Love #Eye #Men

Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.
-- William Shakespeare

#Moon #Swear

Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.
-- William Shakespeare

#Love #Waste #Juliet

My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.
-- William Shakespeare

#Brain #Dull #Forgotten

I long to hear the story of your life, which must captivate the ear strangely.
-- William Shakespeare

#Long #Ears #Stories

Love is familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love." -
-- William Shakespeare

#Love #Angel #Evil

Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.
-- William Shakespeare

#Jest

Sometimes when we are labeled, when we are branded our brand becomes our calling.
-- William Shakespeare

#Calling #Sometimes #Brands

The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious.
-- William Shakespeare

#Art #Strange

Men at some time are masters of their fates...
-- William Shakespeare

#Fate #Men #Masters

Let every man be master of his time.
-- William Shakespeare

#Inspirational #Motivational #Time

In nature there's no blemish but the mind. None can be called deformed but the unkind.
-- William Shakespeare

#Mind #Unkind

More of your conversation would infect my brain.
-- William Shakespeare

#Sassy #Brain #Conversation

I would not wish any companion in the world but you.
-- William Shakespeare

#Love #Wish #World

Coins always make sound but currency notes are always silent, so when ever your value increases keep yourself calm and silent.
-- William Shakespeare

#Coins #Sound #Calm