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William Shakespeare Quotes About Love

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

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Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

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As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

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

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Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

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Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

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Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

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William Shakespeare Quotes About Time

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

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In time we hate that which we often fear.

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Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

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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.

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Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

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We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

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I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

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More Quotes by William Shakespeare

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

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To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

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I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

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When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

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But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

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Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

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

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How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

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And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

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The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

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

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

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I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

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If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

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

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

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A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

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

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The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

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Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

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Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

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How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

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A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

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

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Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

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If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

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Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

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The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

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

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

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Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

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Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

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If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

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Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

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There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

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It is a wise father that knows his own child.

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

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Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

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The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

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

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I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

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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?

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

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Browse 209 quotes attributed to William Shakespeare, listed in the source data as a English Dramatist, organized around themes such as Love, Time, Life. Use the topic links to explore similar quotes, or browse the full author collection in one place.