William Shakespeare

You know That I do fawn on men, and hug them hard, And after scandal them.

— William Shakespeare

This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet

— William Shakespeare

Cold indeed, and labor lost: Then farewell heat, and welcome frost!

— William Shakespeare

Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.

— William Shakespeare

Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.

— William Shakespeare

So are you to my thoughts as food to life, or as sweet seasoned showers are to the ground.

— William Shakespeare

Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice To change true rules for odd inventions.

— William Shakespeare

“I freely told you, all the wealth I had Ran in my veins, I was a gentleman.”

— William Shakespeare

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasance, age full of care; Youth like the summer morn, age…

— William Shakespeare

Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is…

— William Shakespeare

Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha' lost my reputation, I ha' lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!

— William Shakespeare

“What, gone without a word? Ay, so true love should do. It cannot speak, For truth hath better deeds than words to…

— William Shakespeare

“The purple violets and marigolds Shall as a carpet hang upon thy grave While summer days doth last. Ay me, poor maid,…

— William Shakespeare

“Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I have…

— William Shakespeare

That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand…

— William Shakespeare

Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes…

— William Shakespeare

Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent.

— William Shakespeare

The sands are number'd that make up my life; Here must I stay, and here my life must end.

— William Shakespeare

“A tko si ti, što tu pod plaštem noći U tajne moje misli prodireš?”

— William Shakespeare

It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.

— William Shakespeare

For there's no motion That tends to vice in man, but I affirm It is the woman's part.

— William Shakespeare

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

— William Shakespeare

Give me a staff of honor for mine age, But not a sceptre to control the world.

— William Shakespeare

What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?

— William Shakespeare

“Take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them.”

— William Shakespeare

O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.

— William Shakespeare

O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do.

— William Shakespeare

A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.

— William Shakespeare

Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.

— William Shakespeare

One sin, I know, another doth provoke. Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke.

— William Shakespeare

Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.

— William Shakespeare

I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.

— William Shakespeare

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

— William Shakespeare

Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty.

— William Shakespeare

A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts.

— William Shakespeare

He knows what it's like to strut and fret his hour upon the stage and then be heard no more.

— William Shakespeare

It is better to have burnt & lost, then to never have barbecued at all.

— William Shakespeare

Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud The eating canter dwells, so eating love Inhabits in the finest wits of all.

— William Shakespeare

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.

— William Shakespeare

“Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.”

— William Shakespeare