50 William Shakespeare Quotes

1. 'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
2. To be, or not to be: that is the question.
3. To do a great right do a little wrong. 
4. Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. 
5. Nothing can come of nothing.
6. Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage. 
7. Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
8. I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
9. And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
10. Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.
11. Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes. 
12. If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
13. 'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
14. The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
15. Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
16. What's done can't be undone.
17. A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
18. Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
19. What is past is prologue.  
20. Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
21. Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes. 
22. No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
23. Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless! 
24. Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. 
25. Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. 
26. Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.
27. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown 
28. A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.  
29. To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
30. A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
31. The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.
32. 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. 
33. Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
34. We know what we are, but know not what we may be. 
35. Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds. 
36. As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
37. Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.  
38. The course of true love never did run smooth. 
39. Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
40. The love of heaven makes one heavenly. 
41. Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
42. The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
43. And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
44. 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. 
45. Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind. 
46. Brevity is the soul of wit.
47. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
48. Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?  
49. The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
50. 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.