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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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