William Shakespeare

We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed.

— William Shakespeare

Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear.

— William Shakespeare

It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.

— William Shakespeare

“That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioles.”

— William Shakespeare

“Where is your husband? LADY MACDUFF: I hope, in no place so unsanctified Where such as thou mayst find him.”

— William Shakespeare

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told.

— William Shakespeare

“Here's flowers for you; hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram; The marigold.”

— William Shakespeare

One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun.

— William Shakespeare

But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For…

— William Shakespeare

“By love that first did prompt me to inquire; He lent me counsel, and I lent him eyes. I am no pilot,…

— William Shakespeare

“Fates, we will know your pleasures: That we shall die, we know; 'tis but the time And drawing days out, that men…

— William Shakespeare

“Where is Polonius? - In heaven; send hither to see: if your messenger find him not there, seek him i' the other…

— William Shakespeare

The Thane of Cawdor lives, A prosperous gentleman; and to be King Stands not within the prospect of belief, No more than…

— William Shakespeare

'Twas merry when You wagered on your angling, when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With…

— William Shakespeare

See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath! He that but fears the thing he would not know, Hath, by instinct, knowledge from…

— William Shakespeare

“I will be hang’d, if some eternal villain, Some busy and insinuating rogue, Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office, Have…

— William Shakespeare

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

— William Shakespeare

Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies!

— William Shakespeare

I that please some, try all, both joy and terror Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error.

— William Shakespeare

Come, go with us, speak fair; you may salve so, Not what is dangerous present, but the los Of what is past.

— William Shakespeare

“To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life.”

— William Shakespeare

My love is thaw'd; Which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was

— William Shakespeare

Promising is the very air o' the time; it opens the eyes of expectation.

— William Shakespeare

Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.

— William Shakespeare

Be absolute for death; either death or life Shall thereby be the sweeter.

— William Shakespeare

A rarer spirit never Did steer humanity; but you gods will give us Some faults to make us men.

— William Shakespeare

“The world is grown so bad that wrens make pray where eagles dare not perch”

— William Shakespeare

“His beauty shall in these black lines be seen, and they shall live, and he in them still green.”

— William Shakespeare

Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose. For whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed.

— William Shakespeare

Sound trumpets! Let our bloody colours wave! And either victory, or else a grave.

— William Shakespeare

Remember thee! Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.

— William Shakespeare

“I hope they will not come upon us now. King Henry: We are in God's hand, brother, not in theirs.”

— William Shakespeare

How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown!

— William Shakespeare

“Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek mostly to know themselves.”

— William Shakespeare

“O thou weed, Who art so lovely fair, and smell'st so sweet,”

— William Shakespeare

If the skin were parchment and the blows you gave were ink, Your own handwriting would tell you what I think.

— William Shakespeare

Then happy I that love and am beloved, where I may not remove nor be removed.

— William Shakespeare

There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things.

— William Shakespeare

Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge, That no king can corrupt.

— William Shakespeare

Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues.

— William Shakespeare