Quotes by 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 bear a charmed life.
– William Shakespeare
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
– William Shakespeare
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
– William Shakespeare
For I can raise no money by vile means.
– William Shakespeare
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.
– William Shakespeare
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
– William Shakespeare
Death is a fearful thing.
– William Shakespeare
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
– William Shakespeare
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
– William Shakespeare
But men are men the best sometimes forget.
– William Shakespeare
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
– 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
An overflow of good converts to bad.
– William Shakespeare
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
– William Shakespeare
A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
– William Shakespeare
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
– William Shakespeare
'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
– William Shakespeare