Shakespeare Quotes

  Shakespeare was the greatest ever English playwright - 

he lived between 1564 and 1616 (approx).

Shakespeare Quotes

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"The fool doth think he is wise,
but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."

~ As You Like It (Act V, scene 1)

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Unbidden guests
Are often welcomest when they are gone

~ Henry VI, Part 1 (Act II, scene 2)

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"The course of true love never did run smooth."

~ A Midsummer Night's Dream (Act I, scene 1)

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"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."

~ Hamlet (Act I, scene 3)

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"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."

~ As You Like It (Act II, scene 7)

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"Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend"

~ Hamlet (Act I, Scene 3).

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Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail,
And say there is no sin, but to be rich;
And, being rich, my virtue then shall be,
To say there is no vice, but beggary.

~ King John (Act II, scene 1)

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"Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come."

~ Julius Caesar (Act II, scene 2)

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O! It is excellent to have a giant's strength,
but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

~ Measure for Measure (Act II, scene 2)

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"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
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."

~ Macbeth (Act V, scene 5)

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Shakespeare Quotes

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"There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so."

~ Hamlet (Act II, scene 2)

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"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

~ A Midsummer Night's Dream (Act III, scene 2)

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In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke

~ Much Ado About NOthing (Act I, scene1)

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I wasted time, and now doth time waste me

~ Richard II (Act V, scene 5)

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"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."

~ Henry VI, Part 2 (Act IV, scene 2)

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"Brevity is the soul of wit."

~ Hamlet (Act II, scene 2)

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Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

~ Troilus and Cressida (Act I, scene 3)

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Men must endure
Their going hence, even as their coming hither:
Ripeness is all.

~ King Lear (Act V, scene 2)

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"Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,-
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never."

~ Much Ado About Nothing (Act II, scene 3)

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"What's past is prologue."

~ The Tempest (Act II, scene 1)

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"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."

~ The Merchant of Venice (Act I, scene 3)

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