William Shakespeare

Our foster-nurse of nature is repose

— William Shakespeare

To be direct and honest is not safe.

— William Shakespeare

Sin, that amends, is but patched with virtue.

— William Shakespeare

If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me.

— William Shakespeare

Presume not that I am the thing I was.

— William Shakespeare

The due of honor in no point omit.

— William Shakespeare

One pain is lessened by another's anguish.

— William Shakespeare

O madam, my old heart is cracked, it's cracked!

— William Shakespeare

“What need the bridge much broader than the flood? The fairest grant is the necessity.”

— William Shakespeare

A good heart is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and…

— William Shakespeare

Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might. Whoever lov'd that lov'd not at first sight.

— William Shakespeare

It is the very error of the moon; She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, And makes men mad.

— William Shakespeare

O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.

— William Shakespeare

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven.

— William Shakespeare

If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine, Thou robb'st me of a moiety.

— William Shakespeare

O, the blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare!

— William Shakespeare

“Viola to Duke Orsino: 'I'll do my best To woo your lady.' [Aside.] 'Yet, a barful strife! Whoe'er I woo, myself would…

— William Shakespeare

“Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield Thy crazed title to my certain right. LYSANDER You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me…

— William Shakespeare

O, this life Is nobler than attending for a check, Richer than doing nothing for a robe, Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for…

— William Shakespeare

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when…

— William Shakespeare

“If she do bid me pack, I'll give her thanks As though she bid me stay by her a week. If she…

— William Shakespeare

“I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious…

— William Shakespeare

Tis not a year or two shows us a man: They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat…

— William Shakespeare

Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof! *It’s sad. Love looks like a…

— William Shakespeare

There's not one wise man among twenty will praise himself.

— William Shakespeare

For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.

— William Shakespeare

Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!

— William Shakespeare

I'll look to like; if looking, liking move.

— William Shakespeare

My love's more richer than my tongue.

— William Shakespeare

Thoughts are but dreams till their effects are tried.

— William Shakespeare

Can one desire too much of a good thing?

— William Shakespeare

Wish chastely, and love dearly.

— William Shakespeare

“Cut him out in little stars.”

— William Shakespeare

“Look here upon this picture, and on this...”

— William Shakespeare

Thou art sad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife!

— William Shakespeare

Courage and comfort, all shall yet go well

— William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

— William Shakespeare

Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye.

— William Shakespeare

“Knock... and ask your heart what it doth know.”

— William Shakespeare

My friends were poor, but honest, so's my love.

— William Shakespeare