40 Favorite William Shakespeare Quotes

William Shakespeare was a well known English Poet and Play Writer. Famous for plays such as, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet and many many more.

We have put together a list of our favourite William Shakespeare Quotes below.

40 Favorite William Shakespeare Quotes

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare

I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!
William Shakespeare

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
William Shakespeare

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare

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

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?
William Shakespeare

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare

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.
William Shakespeare

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

If music be the food of love, play on.
William Shakespeare

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
William Shakespeare

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William Shakespeare

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
William Shakespeare

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
William Shakespeare

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
William Shakespeare

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare

Listen to many, speak to a few.
William Shakespeare

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
William Shakespeare

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
William Shakespeare

I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!

It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
William Shakespeare

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
William Shakespeare

No legacy is so rich as honesty.
William Shakespeare

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
William Shakespeare

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
William Shakespeare

An overflow of good converts to bad.
William Shakespeare

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.
William Shakespeare

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William Shakespeare

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William Shakespeare

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
William Shakespeare

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

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
William Shakespeare

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
William Shakespeare

What’s done can’t be undone.
William Shakespeare

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
William Shakespeare

The golden age is before us, not behind us.
William Shakespeare

They do not love that do not show their love.
William Shakespeare

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