You are likely going to admire the collection of Shakespeare best quotes below. Before moving to these quotes, however, let's have a look at a brief overview of Shakespeare's life.
About William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (born: 26 April 1564 – died: 23 April 1616) was an English dramatist, poet, author and actor. Shakespeare wrote numerous plays, consisting of comedies, tragedies, histories, and tragicomedies, including 'Romeo and Juliet' and 'Macbeth'. Shakespeare's works are admired worldwide, and he is considered to be the greatest writer and dramatist of all time. He is also regarded as a national poet of England.
Best Shakespeare Quotes
For your convenience, William Shakespeare quotes have been classified into the following categories:
Shakespeare Inspirational Quotes For Life
Following Shakespeare inspirational quotes will encourage you to be ambitious. These Shakespeare thoughts will assist you in achieving success and greatness in life.
All glory comes from daring to begin.
(William Shakespeare)
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
(William Shakespeare)
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| "The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream." (William Shakespeare) |
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
(William Shakespeare)
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
(William Shakespeare)
Be great in act as you have been in thought.
(William Shakespeare)
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| "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." (William Shakespeare) |
Be who you are. Not who the world wants you to be.
(William Shakespeare)
If we are true to ourselves, we cannot be false to anyone
(William Shakespeare)
Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.
(William Shakespeare)
Have more than you show. Speak less than you know.
(William Shakespeare)
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| "Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear." (William Shakespeare) |
Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush, stumble and fall.
(William Shakespeare)
Famous William Shakespeare Quotes About Life
Our time in this world is limited, therefore we need to use it wisely to live a joyful and tranquil life. These famous William Shakespeare quotes about life signifies that our time in this world would soon end, thus we must adopt a cheerful disposition.
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| "Life is short so love your life. Be happy and keep smiling. That's life. Feel it, live it, love it and enjoy it." (William Shakespeare) |
Lay aside life-harming heaviness, and entertain a cheerful disposition.
(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)
And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe. And them from hour to hour, we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.
(William Shakespeare)
The sand are number'd that make up my life. Here must I stay, and here my life must end.
(William Shakespeare)
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| "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) |
We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
(William Shakespeare)
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
(William Shakespeare)
Mine honor is my life; both grow in one: take honor from me, and my life is done.
(William Shakespeare)
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
(William Shakespeare)
William Shakespeare Love Quotes
Following are some romantic and beautiful William Shakespeare love quotes. These quotes portray that the lovers make each other's life beautiful, charming and joyful. To find a lover for yourself and let your love story begin, you must have the courage to express your love.
Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties.
(William Shakespeare)
A heart to love, and in that heart, courage, to make love known.
(William Shakespeare)
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| "This bud of love by summer's ripening breath, may prove a beauteous flower when next we meet." (William Shakespeare) |
Come what sorrow can. It cannot countervail the exchange of joy, that one short minute gives me in her sight.
(William Shakespeare)
I love you more than the words can wield the matter, dearer than eyesight, space and liberty.
(William Shakespeare)
I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say "I love you".
(William Shakespeare)
The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.
(William Shakespeare)
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| "Love is blind and lovers cannot see, the pretty follies that they themselves commit." (William Shakespeare) |
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
(William Shakespeare)
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
(William Shakespeare)
To be wise and love, exceeds man's might.
(William Shakespeare)
Love is like a child, that longs for everything it can come by.
(William Shakespeare)
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| "My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; the more I give to there, the more I have, for both are infinite." (William Shakespeare) |
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
(William Shakespeare)
William Shakespeare Famous Quotes
Following are William Shakespeare famous quotes, which are full of wisdom and profoundness. These Shakespeare thoughts may change the way you perceive things around you.
How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.
(William Shakespeare)
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
(William Shakespeare)
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| "How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world." (William Shakespeare) |
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
(William Shakespeare)
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win by fearing to attempt.
(William Shakespeare)
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel.
(William Shakespeare)
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
(William Shakespeare)
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| "Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course." (William Shakespeare) |
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
(William Shakespeare)
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
(William Shakespeare)
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
(William Shakespeare)
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
(William Shakespeare)
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| "Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair." (William Shakespeare) |
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
(William Shakespeare)
O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
(William Shakespeare)
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
(William Shakespeare)
If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
(William Shakespeare)
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| "The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact." (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)
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones
(William Shakespeare)
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
(William Shakespeare)
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
(William Shakespeare)
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| "Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow". (William Shakespeare) |
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
(William Shakespeare)
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
(William Shakespeare)
Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
(William Shakespeare)
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| "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." (William Shakespeare) |
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore all things return dissolved into their elements.
(William Shakespeare)
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