He is recognized as one of literature’s greatest influences, very little is actually known about him. What we do know about his life comes from registrar records, court records, wills, marriage certificates and his tombstone. Anecdotes and criticisms by his rivals also speak of the famous playwright and suggest that he was indeed a playwright, dramatist, poet and an actor.
Especially Shakespeare’s reputation as dramatist and poet actor is unique but many of the facts of his life remain mysterious. (1564 -1616)
– William Shakespeare Quotes –
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
~ 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 to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
~ William Shakespeare
Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
~ William Shakespeare
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
~ William Shakespeare
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
~ William Shakespeare
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
~ William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did run smooth.
~ William Shakespeare
Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.
~ William Shakespeare
Tis the mind that makes the body rich.
~ William Shakespeare
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
~ William Shakespeare
An overflow of good converts to bad.
~ William Shakespeare
When valor preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.
~ William Shakespeare
A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.
~ William Shakespeare
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
~ William Shakespeare
I wish you all the joy you can wish.
~ William Shakespeare
We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.
~ William Shakespeare
I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.
~ William Shakespeare
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
~ William Shakespeare
Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere ‘Tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs none.
~ William Shakespeare
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
~ William Shakespeare
The time is out of joint. O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right!
~ William Shakespeare
There is 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 we are now afloat; and we must take the current the clouds folding and unfolding beyond the horizon. when it serves, or lose our ventures.
~ William Shakespeare
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
~ William Shakespeare
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
~ William Shakespeare
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
~ William Shakespeare
Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha lost my reputation, I ha lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!
~ William Shakespeare
Life’s 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.
~ William Shakespeare
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
~ William Shakespeare
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
~ William Shakespeare
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
~ William Shakespeare
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
~ William Shakespeare
Listen to many, speak to a few.
~ William Shakespeare
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
~ William Shakespeare
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
~ William Shakespeare
Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.
~ William Shakespeare
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
~ William Shakespeare
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
~ William Shakespeare
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
~ William Shakespeare
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
~ William Shakespeare
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
~ William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did run smooth.
~ William Shakespeare
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
~ William Shakespeare
To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
~ William Shakespeare
When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
~ William Shakespeare
If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.
~ William Shakespeare
The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven’s lieutenants.
~ William Shakespeare
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
~ William Shakespeare
This above all: 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
If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
~ William Shakespeare
The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.
~ William Shakespeare
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
~ William Shakespeare
My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
~ William Shakespeare
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
~ William Shakespeare
Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.
~ William Shakespeare
If music be the food of love, play on.
~ William Shakespeare
I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.
~ William Shakespeare
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
~ William Shakespeare
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
~ William Shakespeare
