William Shakespeare Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old William Shakespeare quotes, William Shakespeare sayings, and William Shakespeare proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

The Robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief. William Shakespeare
Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must. William Shakespeare
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night. William Shakespeare
We will have rings and things, and fine array; and kiss me, Kate, we will be married a' Sunday. William Shakespeare
In persons grafted in a serious trust, negligence is a crime. William Shakespeare
Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent. William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did run smooth. William Shakespeare
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. William Shakespeare
Retire me to my Milan, where every third thought shall be my grave. William Shakespeare
Comets importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky And with them scourge the bad revolting stars. William Shakespeare
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I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw. William Shakespeare
Dost thou love hawking? thou hast hawks will soar Above the morning lark. William Shakespeare
It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won. William Shakespeare
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts. William Shakespeare
After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live. William Shakespeare
It is excellent To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. William Shakespeare
Profit is a blessing, if it's not stolen. William Shakespeare
No profit grows where no pleasure is taken. William Shakespeare
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues. William Shakespeare
Lay aside life-harming heaviness and entertain a cheerful disposition William Shakespeare
In a false quarrel there is no true valor. William Shakespeare
False face must hide what the false heart doth know. William Shakespeare
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. William Shakespeare
Venus smiles not in a house of tears. William Shakespeare
Behavior, what wert thou / Till this madman show'd thee? William Shakespeare
A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind. William Shakespeare
My love is deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, both are infinite.  William Shakespeare
We are such stuff / As dreams are made on, and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep. William Shakespeare
To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature. William Shakespeare