William Shakespeare Quotes


~Wonderful William Shakespeare Quotes~

"There is no darkness, but ignorance." William Shakespeare


"Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell." William Shakespeare


"Self-loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self-neglecting." William Shakespeare


"Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood."
William Shakespeare
"I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none."
William Shakespeare

"The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief." William Shakespeare 


"It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; but vows to every purpose must not hold." William Shakespeare


"It is a wise father that knows his own child." William Shakespeare


"God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another."
William Shakespeare

~A Wise William Shakespeare Quote~

"Assume a virtue if you have it not." William Shakespeare 


"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." William Shakespeare


"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." William Shakespeare


"There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things."
William Shakespeare

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


"This fellow's wise enough to play the fool, and to do that well craves a kind of wit." William Shakespeare


"How camest thou in this pickle?" William Shakespeare 


"Sweet are the uses of adversity, which like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head; and this our life, exempt from public haunt, find tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, and good in everything." William Shakespeare 


"Ambition's like a circle on the water, which never ceases to enlarge itself, 'till by broad spreading it disperse to nought." William Shakespeare


"Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind."
William Shakespeare

"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt." William Shakespeare 


"Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest." William Shakespeare


"Who is so firm that can't be seduced?" William Shakespeare 


"O, call back yesterday, bid time return." William Shakespeare 


"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

"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


"I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient." William Shakespeare


"Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May." William Shakespeare


"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course." William Shakespeare


"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 


"Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife."
William Shakespeare

"O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper. I would not be mad." William Shakespeare


"A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out." William Shakespeare 


"Desire of having is the sin of covetousness." William Shakespeare 


"Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha lost my reputation, I ha lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!"  William Shakespeare


~My Favorite William Shakespeare Quote~

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be." William Shakespeare


"Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth." William Shakespeare 


"For there was never yet a philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently." William Shakespeare 

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