Life Quotes by William Shakespeare · Page 3

“All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd.”

— William Shakespeare

We are not the first Who with best meaning have incurred the worst

— William Shakespeare

Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means!

— William Shakespeare

My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

“Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, and thou no breath at all?”

— William Shakespeare

I bear a charmed life, which must not yield To one of woman born.

— William Shakespeare

Nothing in his life became him like leaving it.

— William Shakespeare

My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend, And nothing brings me all things.

— William Shakespeare

“But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time’s fool, And Time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a…

— William Shakespeare

These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of…

— William Shakespeare

You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except…

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

— William Shakespeare

“Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds,…

— William Shakespeare

There's nothing in this world can make me joy: Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of…

— William Shakespeare

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours…

— William Shakespeare

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength…

— William Shakespeare

And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou…

— William Shakespeare

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage…

— William Shakespeare

“Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard, A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark Is by a forged…

— William Shakespeare

Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are…

— William Shakespeare

“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”

— William Shakespeare

Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life is done.

— William Shakespeare

Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.

— William Shakespeare

Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it.

— William Shakespeare

“The sands are number'd that make up my life.”

— William Shakespeare

“Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.”

— William Shakespeare

Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life.

— William Shakespeare

There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.

— William Shakespeare

Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

— William Shakespeare

Life... is a paradise to what we know of death.

— William Shakespeare

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

— William Shakespeare

Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.

— William Shakespeare

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

— William Shakespeare

Thoughts are but dreams till their effects are tried.

— William Shakespeare