Shakespeare love quotes

Shakespeare love quotes

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

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.
William Shakespeare

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
William Shakespeare

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.
William Shakespeare

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
William Shakespeare

Men's vows are women's traitors!
William Shakespeare

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.
William Shakespeare

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
William Shakespeare

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
William Shakespeare

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
William Shakespeare

My pride fell with my fortunes.
William Shakespeare

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
William Shakespeare

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
William Shakespeare

No legacy is so rich as honesty.
William Shakespeare

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
William Shakespeare

Nothing can come of nothing.
William Shakespeare

Now is the winter of our discontent.
William Shakespeare

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

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

Shakespeare Quotes

William Shakespeare Quotes

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
William Shakespeare

It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare

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

It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.
William Shakespeare

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.
William Shakespeare

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
William Shakespeare

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
William Shakespeare

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

Let no such man be trusted.
William Shakespeare

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
William Shakespeare

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

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.
William Shakespeare

Listen to many, speak to a few.
William Shakespeare

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

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
William Shakespeare

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
William Shakespeare

Love is too young to know what conscience is.
William Shakespeare

Famous Shakespeare quotes

Famous Shakespeare quotes

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
William Shakespeare

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

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

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
William Shakespeare

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.
William Shakespeare

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
William Shakespeare

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
William Shakespeare

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.
William Shakespeare

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
William Shakespeare

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
William Shakespeare

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

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
William Shakespeare

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

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
William Shakespeare

How well he's read, to reason against reading!
William Shakespeare

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
William Shakespeare

I bear a charmed life.
William Shakespeare

I dote on his very absence.
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

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

Shakespeare Quotes

Shakespeare Quotes

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
William Shakespeare

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
William Shakespeare

I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.
William Shakespeare

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
William Shakespeare

I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
William Shakespeare

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

I was adored once too.
William Shakespeare

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
William Shakespeare

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

I will praise any man that will praise me.
William Shakespeare

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love, play on.
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

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.
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

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
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

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William Shakespeare

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
William Shakespeare

In time we hate that which we often fear.
William Shakespeare

Shakespeare quotes

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

By that sin fell the angels.
William Shakespeare

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
William Shakespeare

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

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

Death is a fearful thing.
William Shakespeare

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
William Shakespeare

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
William Shakespeare

Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.
William Shakespeare

Expectation is the root of all heartache.
William Shakespeare

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

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
William Shakespeare

Farewell, fair cruelty.
William Shakespeare

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

For I can raise no money by vile means.
William Shakespeare

For my part, it was Greek to me.
William Shakespeare

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
William Shakespeare

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
William Shakespeare

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
William Shakespeare

Give thy thoughts no tongue.
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare Quotes

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
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

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
William Shakespeare

An overflow of good converts to bad.
William Shakespeare

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
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

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
William Shakespeare

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
William Shakespeare

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

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
William Shakespeare

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
William Shakespeare

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
William Shakespeare

Boldness be my friend.
William Shakespeare

Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.
William Shakespeare