William Shakespeare
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.Collection: Age
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.Collection: Faith
I bear a charmed life.Collection: Life
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.Collection: Nature
I was adored once too.Collection: Love
The valiant never taste of death but once.Collection: Death
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.Collection: Sad
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.Collection: Nature
Time and the hour run through the roughest day.Collection: Time
No legacy is so rich as honesty.Collection: Truth
Men shut their doors against a setting sun.Collection: Men
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.Collection: Art
To do a great right do a little wrong.Collection: Great
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.Collection: God
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.Collection: Good
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.Collection: Nature
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.Collection: Death
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.Collection: Love
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.Collection: Love
Boldness be my friend.Collection: Courage
This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.Collection: Life
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.Collection: Good
My pride fell with my fortunes.Collection: Money
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.Collection: Love
Women may fall when there's no strength in men.Collection: Strength
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.Collection: Relationship
And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!Collection: Death
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.Collection: Happiness
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Such as we are made of, such we be.
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
This above all; to thine own self be true.
There is no darkness but ignorance.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
What's done can't be undone.
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
Though she be but little, she is fierce.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
Listen to many, speak to a few.
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
There's many a man has more hair than wit.
Farewell, fair cruelty.
It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.