William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (born April 1564, traditionally celebrated on 23 April; baptised 1564-04-26; died 1616-05-03 ) was an English playwright and poet.
Found 499 thoughts of William Shakespeare

My tongue will tell the anger of mine heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break.

William Shakespeare

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.

William Shakespeare

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.

William Shakespeare

Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.

William Shakespeare

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven;It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder.

William Shakespeare

How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown!

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Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters...

William Shakespeare

Small to greater matters must give way.

William Shakespeare

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

William Shakespeare

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

William Shakespeare

Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.

William Shakespeare

What's gone and what's past help Should be past grief.

William Shakespeare

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect.

William Shakespeare

If Love be rough with you, be rough with Love, prick Love for pricking, and you beat Love down.

William Shakespeare

I am wealthy in my friends.

William Shakespeare

A very ancient and fish-like smell.

William Shakespeare

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else.

William Shakespeare

What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.

William Shakespeare

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

William Shakespeare

See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.

William Shakespeare

But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.

William Shakespeare

Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.

William Shakespeare
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