William Shakespeare

When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will

— William Shakespeare

I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep.

— William Shakespeare

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

— William Shakespeare

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to…

— William Shakespeare

So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.

— William Shakespeare

“Know the grave doth gape for thee thrice wider than for other men.”

— William Shakespeare

O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!

— William Shakespeare

Take heed, dear heart, of this large privilege; The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge.

— William Shakespeare

Who alone suffers suffers most i' th' mind, Leaving free things and happy shows behind; But then the mind much sufferance doth…

— William Shakespeare

I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to…

— William Shakespeare

Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder,…

— William Shakespeare

Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition…

— William Shakespeare

He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an…

— William Shakespeare

'Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger,…

— William Shakespeare

“The Moor is of a free and open nature, That thinks men honest that but seem to be so; And will as…

— William Shakespeare

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank Here we will sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears;…

— William Shakespeare

Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of Our human generation you shall find.

— William Shakespeare

Rich honesty dwells like a miser, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.

— William Shakespeare

“Why, anything; An honourable murderer, if you will; For naught did I in hate, but all in honour.”

— William Shakespeare

He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends.

— William Shakespeare

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

— William Shakespeare

I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I…

— William Shakespeare

A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame.

— William Shakespeare

My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors.

— William Shakespeare

In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge.

— William Shakespeare

Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.

— William Shakespeare

“If you find him sad, say I am dancing. If in mirth, report that I am sudden sick.”

— William Shakespeare

His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.

— William Shakespeare

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

— William Shakespeare

Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep.

— William Shakespeare

I know a place where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows.

— William Shakespeare

Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good…

— William Shakespeare

He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.

— William Shakespeare

When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.

— William Shakespeare

“My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules.”

— William Shakespeare

I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes—and moreover, I will go with thee…

— William Shakespeare

“Los amigos que tienes y cuya amistad ya has puesto a prueba, engánchalos a tu alma con ganchos de acero.”

— William Shakespeare

So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate.

— William Shakespeare

So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies.

— William Shakespeare

Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.

— William Shakespeare