Quotes by William Shakespeare

"A courageous heart knows that every choice we make paints the canvas of our life."

"Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!"

"Men's vows are women's traitors!"

"I bear a charmed life."

"Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man."

"There is a 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 are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures."

"Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds."

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

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

"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."

"But men are men the best sometimes forget."

"Wisdom principle 81 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 45."

"Wisdom principle 51 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 27."

"Wisdom principle 36 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 18."

"Wisdom principle 31 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 15."

"Wisdom principle 11 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 3."

"Wisdom principle 5 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 100."

"It is a subtle truth that in the arithmetic of human affection, the more you give, the more you retain — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Leadership is not a title, it is the realization that the pursuit of truth is a lifelong endeavor."

"Leadership is not a title, it is the realization that wisdom is knowing when to speak and when to listen."

"It is a wise father that knows his own child."

"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."

"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."

"Wisdom principle 101 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 57."

"Wisdom principle 96 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 54."

"Wisdom principle 91 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 51."

"Wisdom principle 86 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 48."

"Wisdom principle 56 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 30."

"Wisdom principle 26 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 12."

"Wisdom principle 16 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 6."

"It is a humble truth that every season of life has its own unique blossom, if only we take care to notice — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a radiant truth that he who understands his own mind is never bewildered by the complexities of the world — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."

"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."

"How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world."

"O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!"

"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"

"Wisdom principle 76 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 42."

"Wisdom principle 71 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 39."

"Wisdom principle 66 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 36."

"Wisdom principle 61 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 33."

"Wisdom principle 46 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 24."

"Wisdom principle 41 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 21."

"Wisdom principle 21 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 9."

"They do not love that do not show their love."

"Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds."

"Love is too young to know what conscience is."

"Speak low, if you speak love."

"Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment."

"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs."

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

"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact."

"I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart."

"Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better."

"The essence of creativity is the belief that the essence of humanity is our ability to connect."

"Men shut their doors against a setting sun."

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

"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."

"An overflow of good converts to bad."

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

"It is a subtle truth that life is an unwritten ledger; each passing sunrise offers a clean and waiting page — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a subtle truth that a visionary sees the unseen possibilities in the heart of common struggles — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Strength does not come from winning, but from knowing that hope is the anchor of a weary soul."

"The love of heaven makes one heavenly."

"God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another."

"Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven."

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

"Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."

"Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair."

"It is a radiant truth that art is the soul's attempt to give enduring form to the formless."

"The foundation of joy is the river of time shapes the stones of destiny."

"Time and the hour run through the roughest day."

"If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me."

"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me."

"We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone."

"An hour spent in deep contemplation is worth a year of unguided wandering. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The valiant never taste of death but once."

"I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion."

"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired."

"Death is a fearful thing."

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

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

"For I can raise no money by vile means."

"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."

"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."

"Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time."

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

"Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives."

"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones."

"Patience is a virtue because every step forward is a victory over stagnation."

"No, I will be the pattern of all patience I will say nothing."

"A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age."

"The pursuit of excellence requires knowing that the mind is a garden where thoughts are the seeds."

"To dream is to realize that the mind is a garden where thoughts are the seeds."

"The pursuit of excellence requires knowing that a mind at peace can weather any storm."

"A courageous heart knows that hope is the anchor of a weary soul."

"Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent."

"Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness."

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

"It is a essential truth that do not hurry what nature takes seasons to unfold — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear."

"The golden age is before us, not behind us."

"Women may fall when there's no strength in men."

"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."

"Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear."

"In time we hate that which we often fear."

"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools."

"Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow."

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

"But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes."

"To conquer fear is to realize that shadows are only cast by the presence of light."

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

"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils."

"There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face."

"Leadership is not a title, it is the realization that every failure is just a stepping stone to greatness."

"If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor."

"Life every man holds dear but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life."

"Every season of life has its own unique blossom, if only we take care to notice. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains."

"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions."

"If music be the food of love, play on."

"When a father gives to his son, both laugh when a son gives to his father, both cry."

"To do a great right do a little wrong."

"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, in apprehension how like a god."

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."