William Shakespeare quotes

“O, had I but followed the arts! ”

— William Shakespeare

“Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.”

— William Shakespeare

“For my part, it was Greek to me.”

— William Shakespeare

“I bear a charmed life. ”

— William Shakespeare

“It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.”

— William Shakespeare

“O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!”

— William Shakespeare

“Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.”

— William Shakespeare

“I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.”

— William Shakespeare

“How well he's read, to reason against reading! ”

— William Shakespeare

“Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.”

— William Shakespeare

“I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.”

— William Shakespeare

“Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.”

— William Shakespeare

“What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.”

— William Shakespeare

“It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions. ”

— William Shakespeare

“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

“Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.”

— William Shakespeare

“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.”

— 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

“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”

— William Shakespeare

“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.”

— William Shakespeare

“Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.”

— William Shakespeare

“I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.”

— William Shakespeare

“We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.”

— William Shakespeare

“Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. ”

— William Shakespeare

“God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another. ”

— William Shakespeare

“O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! ”

— William Shakespeare

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