William Shakespeare

There's no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune.

— William Shakespeare

The worst is death, and death will have his day.

— William Shakespeare

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth

— William Shakespeare

Be wary then; best safety lies in fear.

— William Shakespeare

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

— William Shakespeare

A man I am cross'd with adversity.

— William Shakespeare

April ... hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

— William Shakespeare

Fortune, good night; smile once more, turn thy wheel.

— William Shakespeare

“This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong: To love that well which thou must leave ere long.”

— William Shakespeare

“Purpose is but the slave to memory, Of violent birth, but poor validity;”

— William Shakespeare

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!

— William Shakespeare

Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs;

— William Shakespeare

Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.

— William Shakespeare

“Estrellas, oculten sus fuegos; no dejen a la luz ver mis deseos negros y profundos.”

— William Shakespeare

Thou hast not half that power to do me harm As I have to be hurt.

— William Shakespeare

If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st But keep that count'nance still.

— William Shakespeare

. . . it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself it is…

— William Shakespeare

I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot; Follow your spirit: and upon this…

— William Shakespeare

Man, proud man, dressed in a little brief authority, like an angry ape, play such fantastic tricks before high heaven as make…

— William Shakespeare

Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art, As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel; For well thou know'st to my…

— William Shakespeare

But Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou love me?" Catherine: "I cannot tell." Henry: "Can any of your neighbours…

— William Shakespeare

“fellow almost damn'd in a fair wife; That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows…

— William Shakespeare

Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat, and yet thy head hath been beaten as…

— William Shakespeare

Look on beauty, And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight, Which therein works a miracle in nature, Making them lightest…

— William Shakespeare

To you your father should be as a god.

— William Shakespeare

Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe

— William Shakespeare

Believe then, if you please, that I can do strange things. [Act 5, Scene 2]

— William Shakespeare

“Oh, what a world is this when what is comely Envenoms him that bears it!”

— William Shakespeare

You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair.

— William Shakespeare

If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.

— William Shakespeare

Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid.

— William Shakespeare

There is a law in each well-ordered nation To curb those raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory.

— William Shakespeare

Ere I could make thee open thy white hand, and clap thyself my love; then didst thou utter, I am your's for…

— William Shakespeare

And teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night ...

— William Shakespeare

This day's black fate on more days doth depend; This but begins the woe, others must end.

— William Shakespeare

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.

— William Shakespeare

“No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en. In brief, sir, study what you most affect.”

— William Shakespeare

“For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.”

— William Shakespeare

When faced with a sea of troubles, take action, and in so doing end it.

— William Shakespeare

For a noble heart, the most precious gift becomes poor, when the giver stops loving.

— William Shakespeare