William Shakespeare Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

2,311 Famous Quotes by William Shakespeare
“So our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time”
Virtue Quotes
“Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.”
Absence Quotes
“Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.”
Absence Quotes
“There is one pain I often feel, which you will never know. It is caused by the absence of you.”
Absence Quotes
“I was adored once too.”
Affection Quotes
“The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.”
Ambition Quotes
“Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!”
Appetite Quotes
“She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd She is a woman, therefore to be won”
Beauty Quotes
“The prince of darkness is a gentleman”
Belief Quotes
“Boldness be my friend.”
Boldness Quotes
“Fight till the last gasp.”
Bravery Quotes
“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
Brevity Quotes
“A degree is not an education, and the confusion on this point is perhaps the gravest weakness in American thinking about education”
Confusion Quotes
“The attempt and not the deed confounds us.”
Confusion Quotes
“Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood”
Conversation Quotes
“If this is a crush, then I don't know if I could take the real thing if it happens.”
Cute love Quotes
“He that dies pays all debts”
Debt Quotes
“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt”
Doubt Quotes
“What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide”
Fate Quotes
“What need I fear of thee? But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live; That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies, And sleep in spite of thunder”
Fate Quotes
“Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself Till by broad spreading it disperse to naught”
Glory Quotes
“My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul”
Grief Quotes
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
Hell Quotes
“Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.”
Honesty Quotes
“Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done.”
Honor Quotes