William Shakespeare

Love's stories written in love's richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.

— William Shakespeare

He wears the rose Of youth upon him, from which the world should note Something particular.

— William Shakespeare

“The sauce to meat is ceremony; Meeting were bare without it.”

— William Shakespeare

Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.

— William Shakespeare

Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

— William Shakespeare

Love us not seen with the eyes, but with the mind. Therefore, there is winged Cupid painted blind.

— William Shakespeare

All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these Who worship dirty gods.

— William Shakespeare

How soar sweet music is, when time is broke, and no proportion kept!

— William Shakespeare

O! that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come; But it sufficeth that the day will…

— William Shakespeare

Let husbands know Their wives have sense like them. They see, and smell, And have their palates both for sweet and sour,…

— William Shakespeare

What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect that private men enjoy! And what have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save…

— William Shakespeare

“Good Madonna, why mournest thou? Good Fool, for my brother's death. I think his soul is in hell, Madonna. I know his…

— William Shakespeare

So shaken as we are, so wan with care, Find we a time for frighted peace to pant And breathe short-winded accents…

— William Shakespeare

Thus die I, thus, thus, thus. Now am I dead, Now am I fled; My soul is in the sky: Tongue, lose…

— William Shakespeare

“So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem…

— William Shakespeare

“What, Lucius, ho! I cannot, by the progress of the stars, Give guess how near to day. Lucius, I say! I would…

— William Shakespeare

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.

— William Shakespeare

All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players.

— William Shakespeare

O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!

— William Shakespeare

For when we rage, advice is often seen By blunting us to make our wits more keen.

— William Shakespeare

I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I have been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy

— William Shakespeare

To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy.

— William Shakespeare

Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.

— William Shakespeare

It easeth some, though none it ever cured, to think their dolour others have endured.

— William Shakespeare

Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend.

— William Shakespeare

“Nature might stand up      And say to all the world, ‘This was a man!”

— William Shakespeare

Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience.

— William Shakespeare

“thither write, my queen, And with mine eyes I'll drink the words you send Though ink be made of gall.”

— William Shakespeare

My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

— William Shakespeare

The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.

— William Shakespeare

The violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy.

— William Shakespeare

Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow

— William Shakespeare

“counterfeit fairly last night. Rom. Good morrow to you both. What counterfeit”

— William Shakespeare

I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.

— William Shakespeare

“Cucullus non facit monachum; that’s as much to say, as I wear not motley in my brain.”

— William Shakespeare

Crowns in my purse I have, and goods at home, And so am come abroad to see the world.

— William Shakespeare

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.

— William Shakespeare

“I am in this earthly world, where to do harm is often laudable, to do good sometime accounted dangerous folly.”

— William Shakespeare

Maria. Nay, but say true, doesit work upon him? Sir Toby Belch. Like aqua vitae with a midwife.

— William Shakespeare

“You and you are sure together, As the winter to foul weather.”

— William Shakespeare