William Shakespeare

“Unless philosophy can make a Juliet, Displant a town, reverse a prince’s doom, It helps not, it prevails not.”

— William Shakespeare

Too much to know is to know nought but fame; And every godfather can give a name.

— William Shakespeare

A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion-- To pray for them that have done scathe to us.

— William Shakespeare

“not a mouse Shall disturb this hallow'd house: I am sent with broom before; To sweep the dust behind the door.”

— William Shakespeare

How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms!

— William Shakespeare

So they loved as love in twain Had the essence but in one; Two distinct, divisions none...

— William Shakespeare

Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, bear t that th' opposed may beware of thee.

— William Shakespeare

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care.

— William Shakespeare

Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts To courtship and such fair ostents of love As shall conveniently become you there.

— William Shakespeare

There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive…

— William Shakespeare

Either our history shall with full mouth Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave, Like Turkish mute, shall have a…

— William Shakespeare

Full many a glorious morn I have seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding…

— William Shakespeare

I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their…

— William Shakespeare

Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who…

— William Shakespeare

“It were for me To throw my sceptre at the injurious gods; To tell them that this world did equal theirs Till…

— William Shakespeare

Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir. My daughter he hath wedded. I will die, And leave him all. Life, living,…

— William Shakespeare

O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple.

— William Shakespeare

One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony.

— William Shakespeare

Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables.

— William Shakespeare

The most peerless piece of earth, I think, that e' er the sun shone bright on.

— William Shakespeare

Your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness.

— William Shakespeare

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

— William Shakespeare

Silence is only commendable In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible.

— William Shakespeare

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

— William Shakespeare

Love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

— William Shakespeare

Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.

— William Shakespeare

We cannot fight for love, as men may do; we shou'd be woo'd, and were not made to woo

— William Shakespeare

Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.

— William Shakespeare

Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity

— William Shakespeare

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

— William Shakespeare

There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember.

— William Shakespeare

For my part, I may speak it to my shame, I have a truant been to chivalry; And so I hear he…

— William Shakespeare

Blind is his love and best befits the dark- Benvolio (in Romeo and Juliet)

— William Shakespeare

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

— William Shakespeare

There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.

— William Shakespeare

The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots and wonders At out quaint spirits.

— William Shakespeare

“You are full of pretty answers. Have you not been acquainted with goldsmiths' wives and conned them out of rings?”

— William Shakespeare

I am too old to fawn upon a nurse, Too far in years to be a pupil now.

— William Shakespeare

“Think you I am no stronger than my own sex being so father'd and husbanded?”

— William Shakespeare

“For as you were when first yout eye I eyed,such seems your beauty still”

— William Shakespeare