280 Great Quotes By William Shakespeare That Will Make You Fall In Love With Life All Over Again
Widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language, William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, also considered the world's pre-eminent dramatist. Remembered as the "Bard of Avon”, he left behind a rich literary legacy consisting of several poems, sonnets, and plays. His plays have been translated into every major living language, and have maintained their popularity over the past several centuries. His comedies, tragedies, and histories are considered some of the finest works in the English language. Even today, his plays remain highly popular and have been repeatedly adapted and rediscovered by new literary and performance movements. Loved all over the world, his works are often reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts. The rich legacy this great writer left behind includes some highly meaningful quotes that are sure to make you ponder. This collection of quotes by William Shakespeare is sure to make you laugh, cry, and view life with a new perspective!
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
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?
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.
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
This above all; to thine own self be true.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is 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.
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
I must be cruel, only to be kind.
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
