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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
“'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.”
“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.”
“I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!”
“Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.”
“When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.”
“Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.”
“Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.”
“Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.”
“Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.”
“There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.”
“My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.”
“The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.”
“Lawless are they that make their wills their law.”
“The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.”
“Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.”
“O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.”
“If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.”
“Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.”
“Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.”
“It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.”
“Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.”
“The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.”
“As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.”
“For I can raise no money by vile means.”
“Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?”
“The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.”