William Shakespeare
They do not love that do not show their love.Collection: Love
Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.Collection: Valentines
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.Collection: Men
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.Collection: Dating
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.Collection: Good
If music be the food of love, play on.Collection: Food
It is a wise father that knows his own child.Collection: Fathers
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.Collection: New
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.Collection: Men
Neither a borrower nor a lender be.Collection: Money
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.Collection: Sympathy
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.Collection: Forgiveness
We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.Collection: Dreams
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.Collection: Faith
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.Collection: Inspirational
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!Collection: Travel
Death is a fearful thing.Collection: Death
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.Collection: Great
Brevity is the soul of wit.Collection: Communication
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.Collection: Good
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.Collection: Marriage
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.Collection: Death
In time we hate that which we often fear.Collection: Fear
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?Collection: Patience
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.Collection: Imagination
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.Collection: Great
For I can raise no money by vile means.Collection: Money
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.Collection: Future
Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.Collection: Good
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.Collection: Relationship
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.Collection: Men
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.Collection: Faith
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.Collection: Knowledge
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.Collection: Nature
The course of true love never did run smooth.Collection: Love
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.Collection: Great
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.Collection: Time
We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.Collection: Time
No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.Collection: Patience
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.Collection: God
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.Collection: Death
But men are men; the best sometimes forget.Collection: Men
Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.Collection: Time
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?Collection: Courage
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.Collection: Life
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.Collection: Music
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.Collection: Fear
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.Collection: Trust
Let no such man be trusted.Collection: Trust
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.Collection: Love