Dramatist · English · 1564 – 1616 · 209 quotes
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
William Shakespeare
Dramatist · English · 1564 – 1616
The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
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.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
Men's vows are women's traitors!
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
They say miracles are past.
For I can raise no money by vile means.
What is past is prologue.
To do a great right do a little wrong.
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
Speak low, if you speak love.
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
Let no such man be trusted.
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
Death is a fearful thing.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
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.
An overflow of good converts to bad.
Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
Now is the winter of our discontent.
Boldness be my friend.
I bear a charmed life.
There is no darkness but ignorance.
Such as we are made of, such we be.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
My pride fell with my fortunes.
Listen to many, speak to a few.
O, had I but followed the arts!
Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
The wheel is come full circle.
By that sin fell the angels.
What's done can't be undone.
Give thy thoughts no tongue.
Nothing can come of nothing.
I dote on his very absence.
Farewell, fair cruelty.
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.
