William Shakespeare

This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory.

— William Shakespeare

“Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep; And in his simple show he harbours treason.”

— William Shakespeare

Let us our lives, our souls, Our debts, our careful wives, Our children, and our sins, lay on the King!

— William Shakespeare

For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have.

— William Shakespeare

Now no way can I stray; Save back to England, all the world's my way.

— William Shakespeare

What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

— William Shakespeare

To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets.

— William Shakespeare

The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all…

— William Shakespeare

But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.

— William Shakespeare

Then was I as a tree whose boughs did bend with fruit; but in one night, a storm or robbery, call it…

— William Shakespeare

I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that will put me in trust: to love…

— William Shakespeare

One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but…

— William Shakespeare

But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In…

— William Shakespeare

That strain again! It had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a…

— William Shakespeare

“What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.”

— William Shakespeare

But virtue never will be mov'd, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven.

— William Shakespeare

That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.

— William Shakespeare

“Bad is the world, and all will come to naught when such ill-dealing must be seen in thought.”

— William Shakespeare

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.

— William Shakespeare

“Milikilah lebih banyak daripada yang anda tunjukkan. Berbicaralah tidak sebanyak yang anda ketahui.”

— William Shakespeare

Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.— Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!

— William Shakespeare

Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause.

— William Shakespeare

I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.

— William Shakespeare

There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest, For I did dream of money-bags to-night.

— William Shakespeare

He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.

— William Shakespeare

“Whose speechless song, being many, seeming one, Sings this to thee: 'thou single wilt prove none.”

— William Shakespeare

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!

— William Shakespeare

Conscience is a blushing, shamefaced spirit than mutinies in a man's bosom; it fills one full of obstacles.

— William Shakespeare

Haply a woman's voice may do some good When articles too nicely urged be stood on.

— William Shakespeare

O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealing teaches them suspect The thoughts of others!

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears, Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores Of will and judgment.

— William Shakespeare

Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.

— William Shakespeare

Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feelings as to sight?

— William Shakespeare

There's some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favourable.

— William Shakespeare

“Be that thou know'st thou art, and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st.”

— William Shakespeare

Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm.

— William Shakespeare

One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.

— William Shakespeare